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 brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you. Yea, they have called a multitude after you. Do not believe them, though they speak good things to you.

They speak vanity each one with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

Covetings are in her midst; oppression and guile will not depart from her streets.

He who hates pretends with his lips and stores up deceit within him.

Put no trust in a friend; put no hope in a guide; keep the door of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.

But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to the sanhedrins, and they will scourge you in their synagogues.

And you shall be betrayed also by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends. And they will cause some of you to be put to death.

Every brother

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

And He said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for like a prince you have power with God and with men, and have prevailed.

not to go beyond and defraud his brother in this matter (because the Lord is the avenger concerning all these, as we also have forewarned you and testified).

Walk

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

You shall not go as a slanderer among your people; you shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am Jehovah.

he does not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;

These six Jehovah hates; yea, seven are hateful to his soul:

He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who speaks a slander, is a fool.

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

In you are men of slander to shed blood; and in you they eat on the mountains; in your midst they do unchaste acts.

Therefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings, and all evil speakings,

General references

And she laid up his robe beside her until his lord came home.

And Delilah said to Samson, Please tell me where your great strength lies, and with what you may be bound to afflict you.

Why do You show me evil, and You look on toil? For destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention rises up.

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