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Jeremiah 9:4

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.

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In The 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.

In Context

3And they bend their tongue--their bow--for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD.

5And they will deceive each one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves to commit iniquity.

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Cross References

Genesis 32:28And he said, Thy name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for thou have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.

Psalms 12:2They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak.

Psalms 55:11Wickedness is in the midst of it. Oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.

Proverbs 4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

Proverbs 6:19a FALSE witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

Proverbs 25:18A man who bears FALSE witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 9:2-12

The Prophet's Lamentation; Wickedness of Judah. ( b. c. 606.) 1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to… Read the whole commentary →

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