⁴ Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.

⁵ Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.

⁶ For the son puts shame on his father, the daughter goes against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's haters are those of his family.

²⁸ All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.

²⁴ With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;

²⁵ When he says fair words, have no belief in him; for in his heart are seven evils:

² Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

³ The smooth lips and the tongue of pride will be cut off by the Lord.

¹⁶ Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.

³ Whose tongue is not false, who does no evil to his friend, and does not take away the good name of his neighbour;

¹⁸ Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.

¹⁸ One who gives false witness against his neighbour is a hammer and a sword and a sharp arrow.

⁶ For even your brothers, your father's family, even they have been untrue to you, crying loudly after you: have no faith in them, though they say fair words to you.

²⁸ And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.

³⁵ And he said, Your brother came with deceit, and took away your blessing.

³⁶ And he said, Is it because he is named Jacob that he has twice taken my place? for he took away my birthright, and now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have you not kept a blessing for me?

¹ So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

² Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

¹⁶ Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him:

¹⁹ A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.

⁹ In you there are men who say evil of others, causing death; in you they have taken the flesh with the blood for food; in your streets they have put evil designs into effect.

¹⁷ But be on the watch against men: for they will give you up to the Sanhedrins, and in their Synagogues they will give you blows;

²¹ And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

³⁴ Do not have the thought that I have come to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

³⁵ For I have come to put a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law:

¹⁶ But you will be given up even by your fathers and mothers, your brothers and relations and friends; and some of you will be put to death.

⁶ And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness.

¹¹ Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.

¹² For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;