Jeremiah 12:6

God warns Jeremiah that even his own family has betrayed him and not to trust their flattering words.

Cross-references · 20

• Prov 26:25When he speaks graciously, do not believe him, for seven abominations fill his heart.
• Jer 9:4“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.
• Ps 12:2They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
• Mic 7:5–6Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.
• Gen 37:4–11When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
• Matt 10:21Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
• Jer 11:19For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
• Jer 11:21Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the people of Anathoth who are seeking your life and saying, “You must not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hand.”
• Ps 69:8I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,
• Acts 21:28–30crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”
• Job 6:15But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,
• Matt 22:16–18They sent their disciples to Him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that You are honest and that You teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You seek favor from no one, because You pay no attention to external appearance.
• Acts 18:12While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews coordinated an attack on Paul and brought him before the judgment seat.
• Ezek 33:30–31As for you, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses. One speaks to another, each saying to his brother, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD!’
• Acts 19:24–29It began with a silversmith named Demetrius who made silver shrines of Artemis, bringing much business to the craftsmen.
• Jer 20:10For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”
• Isa 31:4For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey—and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.
• John 7:5For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.
• Mark 12:12At this, the leaders sought to arrest Jesus, for they knew that He had spoken this parable against them. But fearing the crowd, they left Him and went away.
• Acts 16:22The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered that they be stripped and beaten with rods.

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