Jeremiah 12:6

New Century Version

Even your own brothers and members of your own family are making plans against you. They are crying out against you. Don’t trust them, even when they say nice things to you!

Cross References

Job 6:15

But my brothers cannot be counted on. They are like streams that do not always flow, streams that sometimes run over.

Psalm 12:2

Everyone lies to his neighbors; they say one thing and mean another.

Psalm 12:3

The Lord will stop those flattering lips and cut off those bragging tongues.

Psalm 69:8

I am like a stranger to my closest relatives and a foreigner to my mother’s children.

Proverbs 23:8

You will throw up the little you have eaten, and you will have wasted your kind words.

Proverbs 26:25

People’s words may be kind, but don’t believe them, because their minds are full of evil thoughts.

Isaiah 31:4

The Lord says this to me: “When a lion or a lion’s cub kills an animal to eat, it stands over the dead animal and roars. A band of shepherds may be assembled against it, but the lion will not be afraid of their yelling or upset by their noise. So the Lord All-Powerful will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill.

Jeremiah 11:19

Before this, I was like a gentle lamb waiting to be butchered. I did not know they had made plans against me, saying: “Let us destroy the tree and its fruit. Let’s kill him so people will forget him.”

Jeremiah 11:21

So the Lord speaks about the people from Anathoth who plan to kill Jeremiah and say, “Don’t prophesy in the name of the Lord, or we will kill you!”

Jeremiah 20:10

I hear many people whispering about me: “Terror on every side! Tell on him! Let’s tell the rulers about him.” My friends are all just waiting for me to make some mistake. They are saying, “Maybe we can trick him so we can defeat him and pay him back.”

Jeremiah 9:2

I wish I had a place in the desert— a house where travelers spend the night— so I could leave my people. I could go away from them, because they are all unfaithful to God; they are all turning against him.

Jeremiah 9:3

“They use their tongues like a bow, shooting lies from their mouths like arrows. Lies, not truth, have grown strong in the land. They go from one evil thing to another. They do not know who I am,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:4

“Watch out for your friends, and don’t trust your own relatives, because every relative is a cheater, and every friend tells lies about you.

Jeremiah 9:5

Everyone lies to his friend, and no one speaks the truth. The people of Judah have taught their tongues to lie. They have become tired from sinning.

Matthew 10:21

“Brothers will give their own brothers to be killed, and fathers will give their own children to be killed. Children will fight against their own parents and have them put to death.

Mark 12:12

The Jewish leaders knew that the story was about them. So they wanted to find a way to arrest Jesus, but they were afraid of the people. So the leaders left him and went away.

John 7:5

(Even Jesus’ brothers did not believe in him.)

Acts 16:22

The crowd joined the attack against them. The Roman officers tore the clothes of Paul and Silas and had them beaten with rods.

Acts 18:12

When Gallio was the governor of the country of Southern Greece, some people came together against Paul and took him to the court.