Jeremiah 9:4

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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 thy brethren and thy kindred have altogether despised thee, and cried out upon thee in thine absence. Believe them not, though they speak fair words to thee.

They talk of vanity every one with his neighbour; they do but flatter with their lips, and dissemble in their double heart.

Wickedness is therein; deceit and guile go not out of her streets.

An enemy dissembleth with his lips, and in the mean season he imagineth mischief;

Let no man believe his friend, nor put his confidence in a prince. Keep the door of thy mouth, from her that lieth in thy bosom:

Beware of men: for they shall deliver you up to the councils, and shall scourge you in their synagogues;

Yea, and ye shall be betrayed of your fathers and mothers, and of your brethren, and kinsmen, and lovers. And some of you shall they put to death.

Every brother

And he said, "Thy brother came with subtlety, and hath taken away thy blessing."

And he said, "Thou shalt be called Jacob no more, but Israel. For thou hast wrestled with God and with men and hast prevailed."

that no man go too far and defraud his brother in bargaining, because the Lord is avenger of all such things: as we told you before time, and testified unto you.

Walk

For they are all unfaithful and fallen away, they hang upon filthy lucre; they are clean brass and iron, for they hurt and destroyed every man.

"'Thou shalt not go up and down a privy accuser among thy people, neither shalt thou help to shed the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.

He that hath used no deceit in his tongue, nor done evil to his neighbour, and hath not slandered his neighbours.

These six things doth the LORD hate, and the seventh he utterly abhorreth:

He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that speaketh slander, is a fool.

Whoso beareth false witness against his neighbour, he is a very spear, a sword, and a sharp arrow.

Murderers are there in thee, that shed blood, and eat upon the hills, and in thee they use unhappiness.

Wherefore, lay aside all maliciousness, and all guile, and dissimulation, and envy, and all backbiting:

General references

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

And Delilah said to Samson, "Oh, tell me where thy great strength lieth, and if thou were bound wherewith men might constrain thee."

Why lettest thou me see weariness and labour? Tyranny and violence are before me, power overgoeth right:

The Jews likewise affirmed, saying that it was even so.