Jeremiah 20:10
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10 (A)For I heard many [a]mocking:
“Fear on every side!”
“Report,” they say, “and we will report it!”
(B)All my acquaintances watched for my stumbling, saying,
“Perhaps he can be induced;
Then we will prevail against him,
And we will take our revenge on him.”
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- Jeremiah 20:10 slandering
Psalm 41:9
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9 (A)Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted,
(B)Who ate my bread,
Has [a]lifted up his heel against me.
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- Psalm 41:9 Acted as a traitor
Psalm 31:13
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13 (A)For I hear the slander of many;
(B)Fear is on every side;
While they (C)take counsel together against me,
They scheme to take away my life.
Isaiah 29:21
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21 Who make a man an offender by a word,
And (A)lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate,
And turn aside the just (B)by empty words.
Jeremiah 18:18
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Jeremiah Persecuted
18 Then they said, (A)“Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; (B)for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”
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Acts 24:13
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13 Nor can they prove the things of which they now accuse me.
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Ezekiel 22:9
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9 In you are (A)men who slander to cause bloodshed; (B)in you are those who eat on the mountains; in your midst they commit lewdness.
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Jeremiah 6:25
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25 Do not go out into the field,
Nor walk by the way.
Because of the sword of the enemy,
Fear is on every side.
Proverbs 10:18
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Psalm 64:2-4
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2 Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked,
From the rebellion of the workers of iniquity,
3 Who sharpen their tongue like a sword,
(A)And bend their bows to shoot their arrows—bitter words,
4 That they may shoot in secret at the blameless;
Suddenly they shoot at him and do not fear.
Psalm 55:13-14
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13 But it was you, a man my equal,
(A)My companion and my acquaintance.
14 We took sweet counsel together,
And (B)walked to the house of God in the throng.
Acts 6:11-15
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11 (A)Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.” 12 And they stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes; and they came upon him, seized him, and brought him to the council. 13 They also set up false witnesses who said, “This man does not cease to speak [a]blasphemous words against this holy place and the law; 14 (B)for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs which Moses delivered to us.” 15 And all who sat in the council, looking steadfastly at him, saw his face as the face of an angel.
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- Acts 6:13 NU omits blasphemous
Luke 20:20
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The Pharisees: Is It Lawful to Pay Taxes to Caesar?(A)
20 (B)So they watched Him, and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, that they might seize on His words, in order to deliver Him to the power and the authority of the governor.
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