Jeremiah 12:6

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

When his speech is charming, don’t believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.

“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?

For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said, “He is insane.”

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;

I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.

They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.

It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in Yahweh’s name;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.

But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.

It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.

whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”

They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.

On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.

Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

“Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or, ‘There,’ don’t believe it.

He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.

When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;

As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war: fifty thousand who could command and were not of double heart.

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

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 are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

“Therefore Yahweh says concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy in Yahweh’s name, that you not die by our hand;’

A man’s foes will be those of his own household.

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house.”

He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard.

From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.

For Yahweh says to me, “As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for their noise, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.

You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.

For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.

The multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, then commanded them to be beaten with rods.

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,