Micah 7:5

New Living Translation

Don’t trust anyone— not your best friend or even your wife!

Cross References

Psalm 141:3

Take control of what I say, O Lord, and guard my lips.

Psalm 38:14

I choose to hear nothing, and I make no reply.

Psalm 41:9

Even my best friend, the one I trusted completely, the one who shared my food, has turned against me.

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.

Lamentations 1:2

She sobs through the night; tears stream down her cheeks. Among all her lovers, there is no one left to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her and become her enemies.

Matthew 10:16

“Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd as snakes and harmless as doves.

Judges 14:17

So she cried whenever she was with him and kept it up for the rest of the celebration. At last, on the seventh day he told her the answer because she was tormenting him with her nagging. Then she explained the riddle to the young men.