Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Everyone beware of his neighbor, and do not trust any brother! For every brother will supplant his neighbor, and will walk with slanders.
New American Standard Bible
And
Because every
And every neighbor
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
Don’t trust any brother,
for every brother will certainly deceive,
and every friend spread slander.
International Standard Version
"Beware of your neighbors, and don't trust any of your relatives. For all of your relatives act deceitfully, and every friend goes around as a slanderer.
A Conservative Version
Take ye heed each one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother, for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
American Standard Version
Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
Amplified
“Let everyone beware of his neighbor
And do not trust any brother.
For every brother is a supplanter [like Jacob, a deceiver, ready to grab his brother’s heel],
And every neighbor goes around as a slanderer.
Bible in Basic English
Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.
Darby Translation
Take ye heed every one of his friend, and confide not in any brother; for every brother only supplanteth, and every friend goeth about with slander.
Julia Smith Translation
Watch ye each from his neighbor, and to any brother ye shall not trust, for every brother deceiving, will deceive, and every neighbor will go tale-bearing.
King James 2000
Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Let everyone be on your guard against his neighbor, and you must not trust in any brother, for everyone surely betrays, and every neighbor goes about [with] slander.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yea, one must keep himself from another; no man may safely trust his own brother. For one brother undermineth another, and one neighbour begileth another.
NET Bible
Everyone must be on his guard around his friends. He must not even trust any of his relatives. For every one of them will find some way to cheat him. And all of his friends will tell lies about him.
New Heart English Bible
"Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and do not trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
The Emphasized Bible
Every one, of his neighbour, beware ye, And in no brother, may ye trust, - For, every brother, supplanteth! And every neighbour, as a tale-bearer, goeth about;
Webster
Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.
World English Bible
Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
Youngs Literal Translation
Each of his friend -- beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk,
Themes
Alertness » What to be aware of
Evil » Speech evil speaking » Backbiting
Evil » Slander » General references to
Prophets » Felt deeply on account of the calamities which they predicted
Slander » General references to
Slander » The wicked addicted to
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 9:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Nation Characterized By Deceit
3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies. But they are not mighty for the truth on the earth; for they go from evil to evil, and they do not know Me, says Jehovah. 4 Everyone beware of his neighbor, and do not trust any brother! For every brother will supplant his neighbor, and will walk with slanders. 5 And everyone will deceive his neighbor and will not speak the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Cross References
Jeremiah 6:28
They are all grievous revolters, walking in slanders; they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.
Jeremiah 12:6
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.
Micah 7:5-6
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.
Genesis 27:35-36
And he said, Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.
Leviticus 19:16
You shall not go as a slanderer among your people; you shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am Jehovah.
Psalm 15:3
he does not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;
Proverbs 10:18
He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who speaks a slander, is a fool.
Proverbs 26:24-25
He who hates pretends with his lips and stores up deceit within him.
Genesis 32:28
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.
Psalm 12:2-3
They speak vanity each one with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
Psalm 55:11-12
Covetings are in her midst; oppression and guile will not depart from her streets.
Proverbs 6:16
These six Jehovah hates; yea, seven are hateful to his soul:
Proverbs 6:19
a false witness who speaks lies, and he who causes fighting among brothers.
Proverbs 25:18
A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
Ezekiel 22:9
In you are men of slander to shed blood; and in you they eat on the mountains; in your midst they do unchaste acts.
Matthew 10:17
But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to the sanhedrins, and they will scourge you in their synagogues.
Matthew 10:21
And brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. And the children shall rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death.
Matthew 10:34-35
Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth. I did not come to send peace, but a sword.
Luke 21:16
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.
1 Thessalonians 4:6
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).
1 Peter 2:1-2
Therefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings, and all evil speakings,