Psalm 5:9
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9 For there is no truth in their mouth;
their inmost self is (A)destruction;
(B)their throat is (C)an open grave;
they (D)flatter with their tongue.
Romans 3:13
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13 (A)“Their throat is (B)an open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
(C)“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
Psalm 62:4
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4 They only plan to thrust him down from his (A)high position.
They take pleasure in falsehood.
(B)They bless with their mouths,
but inwardly they curse. Selah
Micah 6:12
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12 Your[a] rich men are (A)full of violence;
your inhabitants (B)speak lies,
and (C)their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Footnotes
- Micah 6:12 Hebrew whose
Jeremiah 9:3-6
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3 (A)They bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong[a] in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
(B)and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
4 (C)Let everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every (D)brother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor (E)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.
6 Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit,
(F)they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:3 Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong
Psalm 51:6
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6 Behold, you delight in truth in (A)the inward being,
and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
Luke 11:44
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44 Woe to you! (A)For you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it.”
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Proverbs 29:5
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Psalm 52:2
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Psalm 111:1-3
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Great Are the Lord's Works
111 [a] (A)Praise the Lord!
I (B)will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart,
in the company of (C)the upright, in the congregation.
2 Great are the (D)works of the Lord,
(E)studied by all who delight in them.
3 (F)Full of splendor and majesty is his work,
and his (G)righteousness endures forever.
Footnotes
- Psalm 111:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem, each line beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet
Psalm 64:6
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6 They search out injustice,
saying, “We have accomplished a diligent search.”
For (A)the inward mind and heart of a man are deep.
Psalm 62:9
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9 (A)Those of low estate are but a breath;
those of high estate (B)are a delusion;
in the balances they go up;
(C)they are together lighter than a breath.
Psalm 58:2-3
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2 No, in your hearts you devise wrongs;
your hands (A)deal out violence on earth.
3 The wicked are (B)estranged from the womb;
they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
Psalm 36:1-4
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How Precious Is Your Steadfast Love
To the choirmaster. Of David, the (A)servant of the Lord.
36 Transgression speaks to the wicked
deep in his heart;[a]
(B)there is no fear of God
before his eyes.
2 (C)For he flatters himself in his own eyes
that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.
3 The words of his mouth are (D)trouble and deceit;
(E)he has ceased to act wisely and do good.
4 He (F)plots (G)trouble while on his bed;
he sets himself in (H)a way that is not good;
(I)he does not reject evil.
Footnotes
- Psalm 36:1 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac, Jerome (compare Septuagint); most Hebrew manuscripts in my heart
Job 32:21-22
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21 I will not (A)show partiality to any man
or use flattery toward any person.
22 For I do not know how to flatter,
else my Maker would soon take me away.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
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5 (A)For we never came with words of flattery,[a] as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—(B)God is witness.
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- 1 Thessalonians 2:5 Or with a flattering speech
Romans 1:29-31
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29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
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Luke 11:39
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39 And the Lord said to him, (A)“Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of (B)greed and wickedness.
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Jeremiah 17:9
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9 The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
Jeremiah 4:14
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14 O Jerusalem, (A)wash your heart from evil,
that you may be saved.
How long shall your wicked thoughts
lodge within you?
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