Micah 7:5

New International Reader's Version

Don’t trust your neighbors. Don’t put your faith in your friends. Be careful what you say even to your own wife.

Cross References

Psalm 141:3

Lord, guard my mouth. Keep watch over the door of my lips.

Psalm 38:14

I’m like someone who doesn’t hear. I’m like someone whose mouth can’t make any reply.

Psalm 41:9

Even my close friend, someone I trusted, has failed me. I even shared my bread with him.

Jeremiah 9:3

“They get ready to use their tongues like bows,” announces the Lord. “Their mouths shoot out lies like arrows. They tell lies to gain power in the land. They go from one sin to another. They do not pay any attention to me.

Jeremiah 9:4

Be on guard against your friends. Do not trust the members of your own family. Every one of them cheats. Every friend tells lies.

Lamentations 1:2

Jerusalem weeps bitterly at night. Tears run down her cheeks. None of her friends comforts her. All those who were going to help her have turned against her. They have become her enemies.

Matthew 10:16

“I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as wise as snakes and as harmless as doves.

Judges 14:17

She cried during the whole seven days the feast was going on. So on the seventh day he finally told her the answer to the riddle. That’s because she kept on asking him to tell her. Then she explained the riddle to her people.