Jeremiah 12:6

Good News Translation

Even your relatives, members of your own family, have betrayed you; they join in the attacks against you. Do not trust them, even though they speak friendly words.”

Cross References

Job 6:15

But you, my friends, you deceive me like streams that go dry when no rain comes.

Psalm 12:2

All of them lie to one another; they deceive each other with flattery.

Psalm 12:3

Silence those flattering tongues, O Lord! Close those boastful mouths that say,

Psalm 69:8

I am like a stranger to my relatives, like a foreigner to my family.

Proverbs 23:8

You will vomit up what you have eaten, and all your flattery will be wasted.

Proverbs 26:25

They may sound fine, but don't believe him, because his heart is filled to the brim with hate.

Isaiah 31:4

The Lord said to me, “No matter how shepherds yell and shout, they can't scare away a lion from an animal that it has killed; in the same way, there is nothing that can keep me, the Lord Almighty, from protecting Mount Zion.

Jeremiah 11:19

I was like a trusting lamb taken out to be killed, and I did not know that it was against me that they were planning evil things. They were saying, “Let's chop down the tree while it is still healthy; let's kill him so that no one will remember him any more.”

Jeremiah 11:21

The people of Anathoth wanted me killed, and they told me that they would kill me if I kept on proclaiming the Lord's message.

Jeremiah 20:10

I hear everybody whispering, “Terror is everywhere! So let's report him to the authorities!” Even my close friends wait for my downfall. “Perhaps he can be tricked,” they say; “then we can catch him and get revenge.”

Jeremiah 9:2

I wish I had a place to stay in the desert where I could get away from my people. They are all unfaithful, a mob of traitors.

Jeremiah 9:3

They are always ready to tell lies; dishonesty instead of truth rules the land. The Lord says, “My people do one evil thing after another and do not acknowledge me as their God.”

Jeremiah 9:4

Everyone must be on guard against their friends, and no one can trust their relatives; for all relatives are as deceitful as Jacob, and everyone slanders their friends.

Jeremiah 9:5

They all mislead their friends, and no one tells the truth; they have taught their tongues to lie and will not give up their sinning. They do one violent thing after another, and one deceitful act follows another. The Lord says that his people reject him.

Matthew 10:21

“People will hand over their own brothers to be put to death, and fathers will do the same to their children; children will turn against their parents and have them put to death.

Mark 12:12

The Jewish leaders tried to arrest Jesus, because they knew that he had told this parable against them. But they were afraid of the crowd, so they left him and went away.

John 7:5

Not even his brothers believed in him.)

Acts 16:22

And the crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas. Then the officials tore the clothes off Paul and Silas and ordered them to be whipped.

Acts 18:12

When Gallio was made the Roman governor of Achaia, Jews there got together, seized Paul, and took him into court.