Jeremiah 12:6

New American Bible - revised edition

Your kindred and your father’s house, even they betray you; they have recruited a force against you. Do not believe them, even when they speak fair words to you.

Cross References

Job 6:15

My companions are undependable as a wadi, as watercourses that run dry in the wadies;

Psalm 12:2

Help, Lord, for no one loyal remains; the faithful have vanished from the children of men.

Psalm 12:3

They tell lies to one another, speak with deceiving lips and a double heart.

Psalm 69:8

For it is on your account I bear insult, that disgrace covers my face.

Proverbs 23:8

The little you have eaten you will vomit up, and you will have wasted your agreeable words.

Proverbs 26:25

When they speak graciously, do not trust them, for seven abominations are in their hearts.

Isaiah 31:4

For thus says the Lord to me: As a lion or its young growling over the prey, With a band of shepherds assembled against it, Is neither dismayed by their shouts nor cowed by their noise, So shall the Lord of hosts come down to wage war upon Mount Zion, upon its height.

Jeremiah 11:19

Yet I was like a trusting lamb led to slaughter, not knowing that they were hatching plots against me: “Let us destroy the tree in its vigor; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no longer be remembered.”

Jeremiah 11:21

Therefore, thus says the Lord concerning the men of Anathoth who seek your life and say, “Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord; otherwise you shall die by our hand.”

Jeremiah 20:10

Yes, I hear the whisperings of many: “Terror on every side! Denounce! let us denounce him!” All those who were my friends are on the watch for any misstep of mine. “Perhaps he can be tricked; then we will prevail, and take our revenge on him.”

Jeremiah 9:2

They ready their tongues like a drawn bow; with lying, and not with truth, they are powerful in the land. They go from evil to evil, and me they do not know—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:3

Be on your guard, everyone against his neighbor; put no trust in any brother. Every brother imitates Jacob, the supplanter, every neighbor is guilty of slander.

Jeremiah 9:4

Each one deceives the other, no one speaks the truth. They have accustomed their tongues to lying, they are perverse and cannot repent.

Jeremiah 9:5

Violence upon violence, deceit upon deceit: They refuse to know me— oracle of the Lord.

Matthew 10:21

Brother will hand over brother to death, and the father his child; children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.

Mark 12:12

They were seeking to arrest him, but they feared the crowd, for they realized that he had addressed the parable to them. So they left him and went away. Paying Taxes to the Emperor.

John 7:5

For his brothers did not believe in him.

Acts 16:22

The crowd joined in the attack on them, and the magistrates had them stripped and ordered them to be beaten with rods.

Acts 18:12

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up together against Paul and brought him to the tribunal,