Jeremiah 9:4

New Living Translation

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

Cross References

Genesis 32:28

“Your name will no longer be Jacob,” the man told him. “From now on you will be called Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have won.”

Psalm 101:5

I will not tolerate people who slander their neighbors. I will not endure conceit and pride.

Psalm 15:3

Those who refuse to gossip or harm their neighbors or speak evil of their friends.

Proverbs 10:18

Hiding hatred makes you a liar; slandering others makes you a fool.

Proverbs 25:18

Telling lies about others is as harmful as hitting them with an ax, wounding them with a sword, or shooting them with a sharp arrow.

Proverbs 4:16

For evil people can’t sleep until they’ve done their evil deed for the day. They can’t rest until they’ve caused someone to stumble.

Proverbs 4:17

They eat the food of wickedness and drink the wine of violence!

Proverbs 6:16

There are six things the Lord hates— no, seven things he detests:

Proverbs 6:19

a false witness who pours out lies, a person who sows discord in a family.

Isaiah 59:13

We know we have rebelled and have denied the Lord. We have turned our backs on our God. We know how unfair and oppressive we have been, carefully planning our deceitful lies.

Isaiah 9:16

For the leaders of the people have misled them. They have led them down the path of destruction.

Jeremiah 12:6

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.

Jeremiah 6:28

They are the worst kind of rebel, full of slander. They are as hard as bronze and iron, and they lead others into corruption.

Jeremiah 9:8

For their tongues shoot lies like poisoned arrows. They speak friendly words to their neighbors while scheming in their heart to kill them.

Ezekiel 22:9

People accuse others falsely and send them to their death. You are filled with idol worshipers and people who do obscene things.

Leviticus 19:16

“Do not spread slanderous gossip among your people. “Do not stand idly by when your neighbor’s life is threatened. I am the Lord.

Malachi 2:10

Are we not all children of the same Father? Are we not all created by the same God? Then why do we betray each other, violating the covenant of our ancestors?

Matthew 10:17

But beware! For you will be handed over to the courts and will be flogged with whips in the synagogues.

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.

Luke 21:16

Even those closest to you—your parents, brothers, relatives, and friends—will betray you. They will even kill some of you.

1 Thessalonians 4:6

Never harm or cheat a fellow believer in this matter by violating his wife, for the Lord avenges all such sins, as we have solemnly warned you before.