Psalm 31:18
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18 Let the lying lips be stilled
that speak insolently against the righteous
with pride and contempt.(A)
Jude 15
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15 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly[a] of all the deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
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- 15 Other ancient authorities read everyone
Psalm 94:4
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4 They pour out their arrogant words;
all the evildoers boast.(A)
1 Samuel 2:3
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3 Talk no more so very proudly;
let not arrogance come from your mouth,
for the Lord is a God of knowledge,
and by him actions are weighed.(A)
Revelation 22:15
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15 Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral[a] and murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.(A)
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- 22.15 Or prostitutes
Revelation 21:8
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8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless,[a] the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral,[b] the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”(A)
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Acts 25:7
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7 When he arrived, the Jews who had gone down from Jerusalem surrounded him, bringing many serious charges against him, which they could not prove.(A)
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John 8:48
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48 The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?”(A)
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John 8:44
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44 You are from your father the devil, and you choose to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.(A)
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Matthew 12:24
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24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons, that this man casts out the demons.”(A)
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Isaiah 54:17
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17 No weapon that is fashioned against you shall prosper,
and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord
and their vindication from me, says the Lord.(A)
Psalm 64:3-4
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3 who whet their tongues like swords,
who aim bitter words like arrows,(A)
4 shooting from ambush at the blameless;
they shoot suddenly and without fear.(B)
Matthew 10:25
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25 it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household!(A)
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Isaiah 37:22-24
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22 this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him:
She despises you; she scorns you—
virgin daughter Zion;
she tosses her head—behind your back,
daughter Jerusalem.(A)
23 “Whom have you mocked and reviled?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and haughtily lifted your eyes?
Against the Holy One of Israel!(B)
24 By your servants you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, ‘With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon;
I felled its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses;
I came to its remotest height,
its densest forest.(C)
Proverbs 12:19
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19 Truthful lips endure forever,
but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.(A)
Psalm 140:9-11
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9 Those who surround me lift up their heads;[a]
let the mischief of their lips overwhelm them!(A)
10 Let burning coals fall on them!
Let them be flung into pits, no more to rise!(B)
11 Do not let the slanderer be established in the land;
let evil speedily hunt down the violent!(C)
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- 140.9 Cn: Heb those who surround me are uplifted in head
Psalm 123:3-4
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3 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us,
for we have had more than enough of contempt.(A)
4 Our soul has had more than its fill
of the scorn of those who are at ease,
of the contempt of the proud.(B)
Psalm 120:2
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2 “Deliver me, O Lord,
from lying lips,
from a deceitful tongue.”
Psalm 63:11
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11 But the king shall rejoice in God;
all who swear by him shall exult,
for the mouths of liars will be stopped.(A)
Psalm 59:12
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12 For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips,
let them be trapped in their pride.
For the cursing and lies that they utter,(A)
Psalm 12:3
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3 May the Lord cut off all flattering lips,
the tongue that makes great boasts,(A)
2 Chronicles 32:16
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16 His servants said still more against the Lord God and against his servant Hezekiah.
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