Jeremiah 20:10

New Living Translation

¹⁰I have heard the many rumors about me.
    They call me “The Man Who Lives in Terror.”
They threaten, “If you say anything, we will report it.”
    Even my old friends are watching me,
    waiting for a fatal slip.
“He will trap himself,” they say,
    “and then we will get our revenge on him.”

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Jeremiah 20:10

New International Version

¹⁰I hear many whispering,
    “Terror^(A) on every side!
    Denounce^(B) him! Let’s denounce him!”
All my friends^(C)
    are waiting for me to slip,^(D) saying,
“Perhaps he will be deceived;
    then we will prevail^(E) over him
    and take our revenge^(F) on him.”

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Psalm 41:9

New Living Translation

⁹Even my best friend, the one I trusted completely,
the one who shared my food, has turned against me.

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Psalm 41:9

New International Version

⁹Even my close friend,^(A)
someone I trusted,
one who shared my bread,
has turned^[a] against me.^(B)

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Footnotes

Psalm 41:9 Hebrew has lifted up his heel

Psalm 31:13

New Living Translation

¹³I have heard the many rumors about me,
and I am surrounded by terror.
My enemies conspire against me,
plotting to take my life.

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Psalm 31:13

New International Version

¹³For I hear many whispering,^(A)
“Terror on every side!”^(B)
They conspire against me^(C)
and plot to take my life.^(D)

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Isaiah 29:21

New Living Translation

²¹Those who convict the innocent
by their false testimony will disappear.
A similar fate awaits those who use trickery to pervert justice
and who tell lies to destroy the innocent.

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Isaiah 29:21

New International Version

²¹those who with a word make someone out to be guilty,
who ensnare the defender in court^(A)
and with false testimony^(B) deprive the innocent of justice.^(C)

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Jeremiah 18:18

New Living Translation

A Plot against Jeremiah

¹⁸Then the people said, “Come on, let’s plot a way to stop Jeremiah. We have plenty of priests and wise men and prophets. We don’t need him to teach the word and give us advice and prophecies. Let’s spread rumors about him and ignore what he says.”

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Jeremiah 18:18

New International Version

¹⁸They said, “Come, let’s make plans^(A) against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest^(B) will not cease, nor will counsel from the wise,^(C) nor the word from the prophets.^(D) So come, let’s attack him with our tongues^(E) and pay no attention to anything he says.”

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Acts 24:13

New Living Translation

¹³These men cannot prove the things they accuse me of doing.

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Acts 24:13

New International Version

¹³And they cannot prove to you the charges they are now making against me.^(A)

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Ezekiel 22:9

New Living Translation

⁹People 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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Ezekiel 22:9

New International Version

⁹In you are slanderers^(A) who are bent on shedding blood;^(B) in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines^(C) and commit lewd acts.^(D)

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Jeremiah 6:25

New Living Translation

²⁵Don’t go out to the fields!
Don’t travel on the roads!
The enemy’s sword is everywhere
and terrorizes us at every turn!

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Jeremiah 6:25

New International Version

²⁵Do not go out to the fields
or walk on the roads,
for the enemy has a sword,
and there is terror on every side.^(A)

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Proverbs 10:18

New Living Translation

¹⁸Hiding hatred makes you a liar;
slandering others makes you a fool.

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Proverbs 10:18

New International Version

¹⁸Whoever conceals hatred with lying lips^(A)
and spreads slander is a fool.

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Psalm 64:2-4

New Living Translation

²Hide me from the plots of this evil mob,
    from this gang of wrongdoers.
³They sharpen their tongues like swords
    and aim their bitter words like arrows.
⁴They shoot from ambush at the innocent,
    attacking suddenly and fearlessly.

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Psalm 64:2-4

New International Version

²Hide me from the conspiracy^(A) of the wicked,^(B)
    from the plots of evildoers.
³They sharpen their tongues like swords^(C)
    and aim cruel words like deadly arrows.^(D)
⁴They shoot from ambush at the innocent;^(E)
    they shoot suddenly, without fear.^(F)

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Psalm 55:13-14

New Living Translation

¹³Instead, it is you—my equal,
my companion and close friend.
¹⁴What good fellowship we once enjoyed
as we walked together to the house of God.

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Psalm 55:13-14

New International Version

¹³But it is you, a man like myself,
    my companion, my close friend,^(A)
¹⁴with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship^(B)
    at the house of God,^(C)
as we walked about
    among the worshipers.

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Acts 6:11-15

New Living Translation

¹¹So they persuaded some men to lie about Stephen, saying, “We heard him blaspheme Moses, and even God.” ¹²This roused the people, the elders, and the teachers of religious law. So they arrested Stephen and brought him before the high council.^[a]

¹³The lying witnesses said, “This man is always speaking against the holy Temple and against the law of Moses. ¹⁴We have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth^[b] will destroy the Temple and change the customs Moses handed down to us.”

¹⁵At this point everyone in the high council stared at Stephen, because his face became as bright as an angel’s.

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Footnotes

6:12 Greek Sanhedrin; also in 6:15.
6:14 Or Jesus the Nazarene.

Acts 6:11-15

New International Version

¹¹Then they secretly^(A) persuaded some men to say, “We have heard Stephen speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God.”^(B)

¹²So they stirred up the people and the elders and the teachers of the law. They seized Stephen and brought him before the Sanhedrin.^(C) ¹³They produced false witnesses,^(D) who testified, “This fellow never stops speaking against this holy place^(E) and against the law. ¹⁴For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place^(F) and change the customs Moses handed down to us.”^(G)

¹⁵All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin^(H) looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

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Luke 20:20

New Living Translation

Taxes for Caesar

²⁰Watching for their opportunity, the leaders sent spies pretending to be honest men. They tried to get Jesus to say something that could be reported to the Roman governor so he would arrest Jesus.

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Luke 20:20

New International Version

Paying Taxes to Caesar^(A)

²⁰Keeping a close watch on him, they sent spies, who pretended to be sincere. They hoped to catch Jesus in something he said,^(B) so that they might hand him over to the power and authority of the governor.^(C)

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