Jeremiah 9:5
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5 They all deceive their neighbors,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongues to speak lies;
they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.[a](A)
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- 9.5 Cn Compare Gk: Heb they weary themselves with iniquity.
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Micah 6:12
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12 Your[a] wealthy are full of violence;
your[b] inhabitants speak lies
with tongues of deceit in their mouths.
Job 15:5
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5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
and you choose the tongue of the crafty.(A)
1 Timothy 4:2
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2 through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.
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Ephesians 4:25
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25 So then, putting away falsehood, let each of you speak the truth with your neighbor, for we are members of one another.(A)
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Habakkuk 2:13
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13 Is it not from the Lord of hosts
that peoples labor only to feed the flames
and nations weary themselves for nothing?
Micah 6:3
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3 “O my people, what have I done to you?
In what have I wearied you? Answer me!(A)
Ezekiel 24:12
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12 In vain I have wearied myself;[a]
its thick crud does not depart.
To the fire with its crud!
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- 24.12 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Jeremiah 9:8
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8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow;
it speaks deceit through the mouth.
They all speak friendly words to their neighbors
but inwardly are planning to lay an ambush.(A)
Jeremiah 9:3
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3 They bend their tongues like bows;
they have grown strong in the land for falsehood and not for truth,
for they proceed from evil to evil,
and they do not know me, says the Lord.(A)
Isaiah 59:13-15
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13 transgressing and denying the Lord
and turning away from following our God,
talking oppression and revolt,
conceiving lying words and uttering them from the heart.(A)
14 Justice is turned back,
and deliverance stands at a distance,
for truth stumbles in the public square,
and uprightness cannot enter.(B)
15 Truth is lacking,
and whoever turns from evil is despoiled.
The Lord saw it, and it displeased him
that there was no justice.(C)
Isaiah 57:10
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10 You grew weary from your many wanderings,
but you did not say, “It is no use!”
You found your desire rekindled,
and so you did not weaken.(A)
Isaiah 44:12-14
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12 The blacksmith works it with a tool over the coals, shaping it with hammers and forging it with his strong arm; he becomes hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water and is faint.(A) 13 The carpenter stretches a line, marks it out with a stylus, fashions it with planes, and marks it with a compass; he makes it in human form, with human beauty, to be set up in a shrine.(B) 14 He cuts down cedars or chooses a holm tree or an oak and lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a cedar and the rain nourishes it.
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Isaiah 41:6-7
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6 Each one helps the other,
saying to one another, “Take courage!”(A)
7 The artisan encourages the goldsmith,
and the one who smooths with the hammer encourages the one who strikes the anvil,
saying of the soldering, “It is good,”
and they fasten it with nails so that it cannot be moved.(B)
Isaiah 5:18
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18 Woe to those who drag iniquity along with cords of falsehood,
who drag sin along as with cart ropes,(A)
Proverbs 4:16
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16 For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong;
they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.(A)
Psalm 140:3
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3 They make their tongue sharp as a snake’s,
and under their lips is the venom of vipers. Selah(A)
Psalm 64:3
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3 who whet their tongues like swords,
who aim bitter words like arrows,(A)
Psalm 50:19
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19 You give your mouth free rein for evil,
and your tongue frames deceit.
Psalm 7:14
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14 See how they conceive evil
and are pregnant with mischief
and bring forth lies.(A)
Job 11:3
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3 Should your babble put others to silence,
and when you mock, shall no one shame you?(A)
Genesis 19:11
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11 And they struck with blindness the men who were at the door of the house, both small and great, so that they were unable to find the door.(A)
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