The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit;
(A)He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

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21 (A)The words of his mouth were smoother than butter,
But war was in his heart;
His words were softer than oil,
Yet they were drawn swords.

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22 “For My people are foolish,
They have not known Me.
They are [a]silly children,
And they have no understanding.
(A)They are wise to do evil,
But to do good they have no knowledge.”

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  1. Jeremiah 4:22 foolish

(A)His mouth is full of cursing and (B)deceit and oppression;
Under his tongue is trouble and iniquity.

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19 (A)They went out from us, but they were not of us; for (B)if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out (C)that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

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39 But we are not of those (A)who draw back to [a]perdition, but of those who (B)believe to the saving of the soul.

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  1. Hebrews 10:39 destruction

35 Then one of them, (A)a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,

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The Pharisees: Is It Lawful to Pay Taxes to Caesar?(A)

15 (B)Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in His talk. 16 And they sent to Him their disciples with the (C)Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that You are true, and teach the way of God in truth; nor do You care about anyone, for You do not [a]regard the person of men. 17 Tell us, therefore, what do You think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

18 But Jesus [b]perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test Me, you hypocrites?

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  1. Matthew 22:16 Lit. look at the face of
  2. Matthew 22:18 knew

(A)Those who have turned back from following the Lord,
And (B)have not sought the Lord, nor inquired of Him.”

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They sharpen their tongues like a serpent;
The (A)poison of asps is under their lips. Selah

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As for such as turn aside to their (A)crooked ways,
The Lord shall lead them away
With the workers of iniquity.

(B)Peace be upon Israel!

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Understand, you senseless among the people;
And you fools, when will you be wise?

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(A)The wicked are estranged from the womb;
They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

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(A)They speak idly everyone with his neighbor;
With flattering lips and [a]a double heart they speak.

May the Lord [b]cut off all flattering lips,
And the tongue that speaks [c]proud things,

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  1. Psalm 12:2 An inconsistent mind
  2. Psalm 12:3 destroy
  3. Psalm 12:3 great

For there is no [a]faithfulness in their mouth;
Their inward part is destruction;
(A)Their throat is an open tomb;
They flatter with their tongue.

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  1. Psalm 5:9 uprightness

21 Then Saul said, (A)“I have sinned. Return, my son David. For I will harm you no more, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Indeed I have played the fool and erred exceedingly.”

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So Saul heeded the voice of Jonathan, and Saul swore, “As the Lord lives, he shall not be killed.” Then Jonathan called David, and Jonathan told him all these things. So Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence (A)as in times past.

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21 So Saul said, “I will give her to him, that she may [a]be a snare to him, and that (A)the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, (B)“You shall be my son-in-law today.”

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  1. 1 Samuel 18:21 be bait for

A Distressing Spirit Troubles Saul

14 (A)But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and (B)a distressing spirit from the Lord troubled him.

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26 But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you, (A)for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

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13 And Samuel said to Saul, (A)“You have done foolishly. (B)You have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you. For now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 14 (C)But now your kingdom shall not continue. (D)The Lord has sought for Himself a man (E)after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people, because you have (F)not kept what the Lord commanded you.”

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(A)Then the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard this news, and his anger was greatly aroused. So he took a yoke of oxen and (B)cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, (C)“Whoever does not go out with Saul and Samuel to battle, so it shall be done to his oxen.”

And the fear of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out [a]with one consent. When he numbered them in (D)Bezek, the children (E)of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. And they said to the messengers who came, “Thus you shall say to the men of Jabesh Gilead: ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have help.’ ” Then the messengers came and reported it to the men of Jabesh, and they were glad. 10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you may do with us whatever seems good to you.”

11 So it was, on the next day, that (F)Saul put the people (G)in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and killed Ammonites until the heat of the day. And it happened that those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

12 Then the people said to Samuel, (H)“Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ (I)Bring the men, that we may put them to death.”

13 But Saul said, (J)“Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today (K)the Lord has accomplished salvation in Israel.”

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  1. 1 Samuel 11:7 Lit. as one man

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