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Micah 7:5-6
Don’t trust anyone— not your best friend or even your wife!For the son despises his father. The daughter defies her mother. The daughter in law defies her mother in law. Your enemies are right in your own household!
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Jeremiah 6:28
They are the worst kind of rebel, full of slander. They are as hard as bronze and iron, and they lead others into corruption.
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Psalms 12:2-3
Neighbors lie to each other, speaking with flattering lips and deceitful hearts.May the Lord cut off their flattering lips and silence their boastful tongues.
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Proverbs 26:24-25
People may cover their hatred with pleasant words, but they’re deceiving you.They pretend to be kind, but don’t believe them. Their hearts are full of many evils.
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Leviticus 19:16
“ Do not spread slanderous gossip among your people.“ Do not stand idly by when your neighbor’s life is threatened. I am the Lord.
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Proverbs 10:18
Hiding hatred makes you a liar; slandering others makes you a fool.
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Genesis 32:28
“ Your name will no longer be Jacob,” the man told him.“ From now on you will be called Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have won.”
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Jeremiah 12:6
Even your brothers, members of your own family, have turned against you. They plot and raise complaints against you. Do not trust them, no matter how pleasantly they speak.
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Genesis 27:35-36
But Isaac said,“ Your brother was here, and he tricked me. He has taken away your blessing.”Esau exclaimed,“ No wonder his name is Jacob, for now he has cheated me twice. First he took my rights as the firstborn, and now he has stolen my blessing. Oh, haven’t you saved even one blessing for me?”
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Psalms 15:3
Those who refuse to gossip or harm their neighbors or speak evil of their friends.
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Proverbs 25:18
Telling lies about others is as harmful as hitting them with an ax, wounding them with a sword, or shooting them with a sharp arrow.
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Matthew 10:34-35
“ Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth! I came not to bring peace, but a sword.‘ I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter in law against her mother in law.
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Matthew 10:17
But beware! For you will be handed over to the courts and will be flogged with whips in the synagogues.
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1 Thessalonians 4 6
Never harm or cheat a fellow believer in this matter by violating his wife, for the Lord avenges all such sins, as we have solemnly warned you before.
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Luke 21:16
Even those closest to you— your parents, brothers, relatives, and friends— will betray you. They will even kill some of you.
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1 Peter 2 1-1 Peter 2 2
So get rid of all evil behavior. Be done with all deceit, hypocrisy, jealousy, and all unkind speech.Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment,
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Proverbs 6:19
a false witness who pours out lies, a person who sows discord in a family.
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Proverbs 6:16
There are six things the Lord hates— no, seven things he detests:
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Psalms 55:11-12
Everything is falling apart; threats and cheating are rampant in the streets.It is not an enemy who taunts me— I could bear that. It is not my foes who so arrogantly insult me— I could have hidden from them.
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Ezekiel 22:9
People accuse others falsely and send them to their death. You are filled with idol worshipers and people who do obscene things.
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Matthew 10:21
“ A brother will betray his brother to death, a father will betray his own child, and children will rebel against their parents and cause them to be killed.