Jeremiah 9:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

Ye heed

Luke 21:16

Every brother

Genesis 27:35

Genesis 32:28

1 Thessalonians 4:6

Walk

General references

Bible References

Ye heed

For even your brethren, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; yea, they have called a multitude after you: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto you.

They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

He that hates disguises it with his lips, and lays up deceit within himself;

Trust not in a friend, put not confidence in a companion: keep the doors of your mouth from her that lies in your bosom.

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;

And you shall be betrayed both by parents, and brothers, and kinsfolk, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.

Every brother

And he said, your brother came with subtlety, and has taken away your blessing.

And he said, Your name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince have you power with God and with men, and have prevailed.

That no man transgress and wrong his brother in any matter: because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

Walk

They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.

You shall not go up and down as a talebearer among your people: neither shall you take a stand against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.

He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor.

These six things does the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

A man that bears false witness against his neighbor is a club, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

In you are men that slander to shed blood: and in you they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of you they commit lewdness.

Therefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking,

General references

And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray you, where your great strength lies, and with what you might be bound to afflict you.

Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to behold trouble? for plundering and violence are before me: and there are those that raise up strife and contention.

And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.