Jeremiah 9:4

Modern English Version

Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor, and do not trust in any brother; for every brother supplants, and every neighbor walks about with slanders.

Cross References

Genesis 32:28

Then the man said, “Your name will no more be called Jacob, but Israel. For you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

Psalm 101:5

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I destroy; whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart, him will I not endure.

Psalm 15:3

he who does not slander with the tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend;

Proverbs 10:18

He who conceals hatred has lying lips, and he who utters slander is a fool.

Proverbs 25:18

Like a club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow, so is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.

Proverbs 4:16

For they do not sleep unless they have done evil; their sleep is taken away unless they make someone stumble.

Proverbs 4:17

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Proverbs 6:16

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven are an abomination to Him:

Proverbs 6:19

a false witness who speaks lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

Isaiah 59:13

transgressing, and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Isaiah 9:16

For the leaders of this people cause them to err, and those who are led by them are destroyed.

Jeremiah 12:6

For even your brothers and the household of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you. Indeed, they have cried aloud after you. Do not believe them though they speak fair words to you.

Jeremiah 6:28

They all are stubborn rebels walking about practicing slander. They are bronze and iron; they all are corrupters.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait.

Ezekiel 22:9

In you are men who carry slanders to shed blood. And in you they eat at the mountain shrines. In your midst they commit lewdness.

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, nor shall you stand by while the life of your neighbor is in danger: I am the Lord.

Malachi 2:10

Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously with one another, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Matthew 10:17

But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues.

Matthew 10:21

“The brother will deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child. And the children will rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death.

Luke 21:16

You will be betrayed by parents and brothers and relatives and friends. And they will put some of you to death.

1 Thessalonians 4:6

and that no man take advantage of and defraud his brother in any matter, because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, as we also have forewarned you and testified.