for (A)the son treats the father with contempt,
    the daughter rises up against her mother,
the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
    (B)a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

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35 (A)For I have come (B)to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 (C)And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.

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53 They will be divided, (A)father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

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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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Even my (A)close friend in whom I trusted,
    who (B)ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.

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For people will be (A)lovers of self, (B)lovers of money, (C)proud, (D)arrogant, abusive, (E)disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, (F)heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, (G)not loving good,

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Father and mother (A)are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner (B)suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow (C)are wronged in you.

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18 (A)I am not speaking of all of you; I know (B)whom I have chosen. But (C)the Scripture will be fulfilled,[a] (D)‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’

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Footnotes

  1. John 13:18 Greek But in order that the Scripture may be fulfilled

11 There are those[a] who (A)curse their fathers
    and do not bless their mothers.

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  1. Proverbs 30:11 Hebrew There is a generation; also verses 12, 13, 14

12 For it is not an enemy who taunts me—
    then I could bear it;
it is not an adversary who (A)deals insolently with me—
    then I could hide from him.
13 (B)But it is you, a man, my equal,
    my companion, my familiar friend.
14 We used to take sweet counsel together;
    within God's house we walked in (C)the throng.

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16 You will be delivered up (A)even by parents and brothers[a] and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death.

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  1. Luke 21:16 Or parents and brothers and sisters

49 And he came up to Jesus at once and said, “Greetings, (A)Rabbi!” And he kissed him. 50 Jesus said to him, (B)“Friend, (C)do what you came to do.”[a] Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him.

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  1. Matthew 26:50 Or Friend, why are you here?

23 He answered, (A)“He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me will betray me.

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All your allies have driven you to your border;
    those at peace with you have deceived you;
they have prevailed against you;
    (A)those who eat your bread[a] have set a trap beneath you—
    (B)you have[b] no understanding.

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  1. Obadiah 1:7 Hebrew lacks those who eat
  2. Obadiah 1:7 Hebrew he has

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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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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17 The eye that (A)mocks a father
    and (B)scorns to obey a mother
will (C)be picked out by (D)the ravens of the valley
    and eaten by the vultures.

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21 Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to (A)your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself a stench to your father, and (B)the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.” 22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom (C)on the roof. And Absalom went in to his father's concubines (D)in the sight of all Israel. 23 Now in those days the counsel that Ahithophel gave was as if one consulted the word of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel esteemed, (E)both by David and by Absalom.

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11 And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, (A)my own son seeks my life; how much more now may this Benjaminite! Leave him alone, and let him curse, for the Lord has told him to.

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22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. 23 Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness. 24 When Noah awoke from his wine (A)and knew what his youngest son had done to him,

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10 But Absalom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then say, ‘Absalom is king at Hebron!’” 11 With Absalom went two hundred men from Jerusalem (A)who were invited guests, and they went in their innocence and knew nothing. 12 And while Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for[a] (B)Ahithophel the Gilonite, (C)David's counselor, from his city (D)Giloh. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the people with Absalom (E)kept increasing.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 15:12 Or sent

Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence,
    because you (A)went up to your father's bed;
    then you defiled it—he went up to my couch!

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