Quotes about Neighbor
do not bring hastily to court. Otherwise, what will you do in the end when your neighbor puts you to shame?
— Proverbs 25:8
Argue your case with your neighbor without betraying another’s confidence,
— Proverbs 25:9
Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house, lest he grow weary and hate you.
— Proverbs 25:17
Like a club or sword or sharp arrow is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.
— Proverbs 25:18
so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”
— Proverbs 26:19
Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
— Proverbs 27:10
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
— Proverbs 29:5
“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.
— Jeremiah 9:4
Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.
— Jeremiah 9:8
Recently you repented and did what pleased Me; each of you proclaimed freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me in the house that bears My Name.
— Jeremiah 34:15
He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.
— Ezekiel 18:6
though the father has done none of them: Indeed, the son eats at the mountain and defiles his neighbor’s wife.
— Ezekiel 18:11