Jeremiah 12:6

New Living Translation

Even your brothers, members of your own family, have turned against you. They plot and raise complaints against you. Do not trust them, no matter how pleasantly they speak.

Cross References

Job 6:15

My brothers, you have proved as unreliable as a seasonal brook that overflows its banks in the spring

Psalm 12:2

Neighbors lie to each other, speaking with flattering lips and deceitful hearts.

Psalm 12:3

May the Lord cut off their flattering lips and silence their boastful tongues.

Psalm 69:8

Even my own brothers pretend they don’t know me; they treat me like a stranger.

Proverbs 23:8

You will throw up what little you’ve eaten, and your compliments will be wasted.

Proverbs 26:25

They pretend to be kind, but don’t believe them. Their hearts are full of many evils.

Isaiah 31:4

But this is what the Lord has told me: “When a strong young lion stands growling over a sheep it has killed, it is not frightened by the shouts and noise of a whole crowd of shepherds. In the same way, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies will come down and fight on Mount Zion.

Jeremiah 11:19

I was like a lamb being led to the slaughter. I had no idea that they were planning to kill me! “Let’s destroy this man and all his words,” they said. “Let’s cut him down, so his name will be forgotten forever.”

Jeremiah 11:21

This is what the Lord says about the men of Anathoth who wanted me dead. They had said, “We will kill you if you do not stop prophesying in the Lord’s name.”

Jeremiah 20:10

I have heard the many rumors about me. They call me “The Man Who Lives in Terror.” They threaten, “If you say anything, we will report it.” Even my old friends are watching me, waiting for a fatal slip. “He will trap himself,” they say, “and then we will get our revenge on him.”

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh, that I could go away and forget my people and live in a travelers’ shack in the desert. For they are all adulterers— a pack of treacherous liars.

Jeremiah 9:3

“My people bend their tongues like bows to shoot out lies. They refuse to stand up for the truth. They only go from bad to worse. They do not know me,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:4

“Beware of your neighbor! Don’t even trust your brother! For brother takes advantage of brother, and friend slanders friend.

Jeremiah 9:5

They all fool and defraud each other; no one tells the truth. With practiced tongues they tell lies; they wear themselves out with all their sinning.

Matthew 10:21

“A brother will betray his brother to death, a father will betray his own child, and children will rebel against their parents and cause them to be killed.

Mark 12:12

The religious leaders wanted to arrest Jesus because they realized he was telling the story against them—they were the wicked farmers. But they were afraid of the crowd, so they left him and went away.

John 7:5

For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.

Acts 16:22

A mob quickly formed against Paul and Silas, and the city officials ordered them stripped and beaten with wooden rods.

Acts 18:12

But when Gallio became governor of Achaia, some Jews rose up together against Paul and brought him before the governor for judgment.