Bible Cross References
that seek
Jeremiah 12:5
The LORD said, "Jeremiah, if you get tired racing against people, how can you race against horses? If you can't even stand up in open country, how will you manage in the jungle by the Jordan?
Jeremiah 12:6
Even your relatives, members of your own family, have betrayed you; they join in the attacks against you. Do not trust them, even though they speak friendly words."
Jeremiah 20:10
I hear everybody whispering, "Terror is everywhere! So let's report him to the authorities!" Even my close friends wait for my downfall. "Perhaps he can be tricked," they say; "then we can catch him and get revenge."
Micah 7:6
In these times sons treat their fathers like fools, daughters oppose their mothers, and young women quarrel with their mothers-in-law; your enemies are the members of your own family.
Matthew 10:21
"People will hand over their own brothers to be put to death, and fathers will do the same to their children; children will turn against their parents and have them put to death.
Matthew 10:34-36
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"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the world. No, I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
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I came to set sons against their fathers, daughters against their mothers, daughters-in-law against their mothers-in-law;
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your worst enemies will be the members of your own family.
Luke 4:24
I tell you this," Jesus added, "prophets are never welcomed in their hometown.
Prophesy
Isaiah 30:10
They tell the prophets to keep quiet. They say, "Don't talk to us about what's right. Tell us what we want to hear. Let us keep our illusions.
Amos 2:12
But you made the nazirites drink wine, and ordered the prophets not to speak my message.
Amos 7:13-16
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Don't prophesy here at Bethel any more. This is the king's place of worship, the national temple."
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Amos answered, "I am not the kind of prophet who prophesies for pay. I am a herdsman, and I take care of fig trees.
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But the LORD took me from my work as a shepherd and ordered me to come and prophesy to his people Israel.
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So now listen to what the LORD says. You tell me to stop prophesying, to stop raving against the people of Israel.
Micah 2:6-11
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The people preach at me and say, "Don't preach at us. Don't preach about all that. God is not going to disgrace us.
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Do you think the people of Israel are under a curse? Has the LORD lost his patience? Would he really do such things? Doesn't he speak kindly to those who do right?"
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The LORD replies, "You attack my people like enemies. Men return from battle, thinking they are safe at home, but there you are, waiting to steal the coats off their backs.
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You drive the women of my people out of the homes they love, and you have robbed their children of my blessings forever.
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Get up and go; there is no safety here any more. Your sins have doomed this place to destruction.
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"These people want the kind of prophet who goes around full of lies and deceit and says, 'I prophesy that wine and liquor will flow for you.'
thou
Jeremiah 20:1
When the priest Pashhur son of Immer, who was the chief officer of the Temple, heard me proclaim these things,
Jeremiah 20:2
he had me beaten and placed in chains near the upper Benjamin Gate in the Temple.
Jeremiah 38:1-6
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Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jehucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malchiah heard that I was telling the people that
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the LORD had said, "Whoever stays on in the city will die in war or of starvation or disease. But those who go out and surrender to the Babylonians will not be killed; they will at least escape with their life."
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I was also telling them that the LORD had said, "I am going to give the city to the Babylonian army, and they will capture it."
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Then the officials went to the king and said, "This man must be put to death. By talking like this he is making the soldiers in the city lose their courage, and he is doing the same thing to everyone else left in the city. He is not trying to help the people; he only wants to hurt them."
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King Zedekiah answered, "Very well, then, do what you want to with him; I can't stop you."
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So they took me and let me down by ropes into Prince Malchiah's well, which was in the palace courtyard. There was no water in the well, only mud, and I sank down in it.
Matthew 21:35
The tenants grabbed his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
Matthew 22:6
while others grabbed the servants, beat them, and killed them.
Matthew 23:34-37
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And so I tell you that I will send you prophets and wise men and teachers; you will kill some of them, crucify others, and whip others in the synagogues and chase them from town to town.
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As a result, the punishment for the murder of all innocent people will fall on you, from the murder of innocent Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.
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I tell you indeed: the punishment for all these murders will fall on the people of this day!
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"Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!
Luke 13:33
Yet I must be on my way today, tomorrow, and the next day; it is not right for a prophet to be killed anywhere except in Jerusalem.
Luke 13:34
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets, you stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!
Acts 7:51
"How stubborn you are!" Stephen went on to say. "How heathen your hearts, how deaf you are to God's message! You are just like your ancestors: you too have always resisted the Holy Spirit!
Acts 7:52
Was there any prophet that your ancestors did not persecute? They killed God's messengers, who long ago announced the coming of his righteous Servant. And now you have betrayed and murdered him.