Micah 7:6

New Living Translation

For the son despises his father. The daughter defies her mother. The daughter-in-law defies her mother-in-law. Your enemies are right in your own household!

Cross References

Genesis 49:4

But you are as unruly as a flood, and you will be first no longer. For you went to bed with my wife; you defiled my marriage couch.

2 Samuel 16:11

Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “My own son is trying to kill me. Doesn’t this relative of Saul have even more reason to do so? Leave him alone and let him curse, for the Lord has told him to do it.

Psalm 41:9

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

Proverbs 30:11

Some people curse their father and do not thank their mother.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father and despises a mother’s instructions will be plucked out by ravens of the valley and eaten by vultures.

Isaiah 3:5

People will oppress each other— man against man, neighbor against neighbor. Young people will insult their elders, and vulgar people will sneer at the honorable.

Isaiah 9:19

The land will be blackened by the fury of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. The people will be fuel for the fire, and no one will spare even his own brother.

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 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 9:4

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

Ezekiel 22:7

Fathers and mothers are treated with contempt. Foreigners are forced to pay for protection. Orphans and widows are wronged and oppressed among you.

Obadiah 1:7

“All your allies will turn against you. They will help to chase you from your land. They will promise you peace while plotting to deceive and destroy you. Your trusted friends will set traps for you, and you won’t even know about it.

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.

Matthew 26:23

He replied, “One of you who has just eaten from this bowl with me will betray me.

Luke 12:53

‘Father will be divided against son and son against father; mother against daughter and daughter against mother; and mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.’ ”

Luke 21:16

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

John 13:18

“I am not saying these things to all of you; I know the ones I have chosen. But this fulfills the Scripture that says, ‘The one who eats my food has turned against me.’