Judges 16:6
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6 So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could (A)subdue you.”
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Micah 7:5
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5 (A)Put no trust in a neighbor;
have no confidence in a friend;
guard (B)the doors of your mouth
from her who lies in your arms;[a]
Footnotes
- Micah 7:5 Hebrew bosom
Micah 7:2
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2 (A)The godly has perished from the earth,
and (B)there is no one upright among mankind;
(C)they all lie in wait for blood,
and (D)each hunts the other with a net.
Jeremiah 9:2-5
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2 [a] Oh that I had in the desert
a travelers' lodging place,
that I might leave my people
and go away from them!
For they are all (A)adulterers,
a company of (B)treacherous men.
3 (C)They bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong[b] in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
(D)and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
4 (E)Let everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every (F)brother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor (G)goes about as a slanderer.
5 Everyone deceives his neighbor,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
they weary themselves committing iniquity.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:2 Ch 9:1 in Hebrew
- Jeremiah 9:3 Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong
Proverbs 26:28
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28 A lying tongue hates its victims,
and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Proverbs 22:14
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14 The mouth of (A)forbidden[a] women is (B)a deep pit;
(C)he with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 22:14 Hebrew strange
Proverbs 7:21
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21 With much seductive speech she persuades him;
with (A)her smooth talk she compels him.
Proverbs 6:26
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26 for (A)the price of a prostitute is only (B)a loaf of bread,[a]
but a married woman[b] (C)hunts down a precious life.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:26 Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread
- Proverbs 6:26 Hebrew a man's wife
Psalm 12:2
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2 Everyone (A)utters lies to his neighbor;
with (B)flattering lips and (C)a double heart they speak.
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