For (A)even your brothers and the house of your father,
    (B)even they have dealt treacherously with you;
    they are in full cry after you;
(C)do not believe them,
    though they speak friendly words to you.”

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25 (A)when he speaks graciously, believe him not,
    for there are (B)seven abominations in his heart;

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(A)Let everyone beware of his neighbor,
    and put no trust in any brother,
for every (B)brother is a deceiver,
    and every neighbor (C)goes about as a slanderer.

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(A)Put no trust in a neighbor;
    have no confidence in a friend;
guard (B)the doors of your mouth
    from her who lies in your arms;[a]
for (C)the son treats the father with contempt,
    the daughter rises up against her mother,
the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
    (D)a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 7:5 Hebrew bosom

Everyone (A)utters lies to his neighbor;
    with (B)flattering lips and (C)a double heart they speak.

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But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.

Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more. He said to them, “Hear this dream that I have dreamed: Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, (A)my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and (B)bowed down to my sheaf.” His brothers said to him, “Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.

Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, “Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” 10 But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and (C)your mother and your brothers indeed come (D)to bow ourselves to the ground before you?” 11 And (E)his brothers were jealous of him, (F)but his father kept the saying in mind.

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21 (A)Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,

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21 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the men of (A)Anathoth, (B)who seek your life, and say, (C)“Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord, or you will die by our hand”—

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19 But I was (A)like a gentle lamb
    led to the slaughter.
I did not know (B)it was against me
    they devised schemes, saying,
“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
    (C)let us cut him off from (D)the land of the living,
    that his name be remembered no more.”

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28 crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who (A)is teaching everyone everywhere against the people and (B)the law and (C)this place. Moreover, he even brought Greeks into the temple and (D)has defiled (E)this holy place.” 29 For they had previously seen (F)Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple. 30 Then all the city was stirred up, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and (G)dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.

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24 For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, (A)brought no little business to the craftsmen. 25 (B)These he gathered together, with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth. 26 And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, (C)saying that (D)gods made with hands are not gods. 27 And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the (E)great goddess Artemis may be counted as nothing, and that she may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world worship.”

28 When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, (F)“Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” 29 So the city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed together into the theater, dragging with them Gaius and (G)Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul's (H)companions in travel.

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12 But when Gallio was (A)proconsul of Achaia, (B)the Jews[a] made a united attack on Paul and (C)brought him before the tribunal,

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 18:12 Greek Ioudaioi probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time; also verses 14 (twice), 28

16 And they sent (A)their disciples to him, along with (B)the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, (C)we know that you are true and teach (D)the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone's opinion, for (E)you are not swayed by appearances.[a] 17 Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay (F)taxes to (G)Caesar, or not?” 18 But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why (H)put me to the test, you hypocrites?

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  1. Matthew 22:16 Greek for you do not look at people's faces

30 “As for you, (A)son of man, (B)your people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, say to one another, each to his brother, ‘Come, and hear what the word is that comes from the Lord.’ 31 (C)And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for (D)with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.

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10 (A)For I hear many whispering.
    (B)Terror is on every side!
“Denounce him! (C)Let us denounce him!”
    say all my (D)close friends,
    (E)watching for (F)my fall.
“Perhaps he will be deceived;
    then (G)we can overcome him
    and take our revenge on him.”

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I have become (A)a stranger to my brothers,
    an alien to my mother's sons.

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15 My (A)brothers are (B)treacherous as a torrent-bed,
    as torrential (C)streams that pass away,

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(A)For not even (B)his brothers believed in him.

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12 And (A)they were seeking to arrest him (B)but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they (C)left him and went away.

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For thus the Lord said to me,
(A)“As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey,
    and when a band of shepherds is called out against him
he is not terrified by their shouting
    or daunted at their noise,
(B)so the Lord of hosts will come down
    to fight[a] on Mount Zion and on its hill.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 31:4 The Hebrew words for hosts and to fight sound alike

22 The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates tore the garments off them and gave orders (A)to beat them with rods.

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