Psalm 52:2
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2 you are plotting destruction.
Your tongue is like a sharp razor,
you worker of treachery.(A)
Proverbs 18:21
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21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
and those who love it will eat its fruits.(A)
Psalm 57:4
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4 I lie down among lions
that greedily devour[a] human prey;
their teeth are spears and arrows,
their tongues sharp swords.(A)
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- 57.4 Cn: Heb are aflame for
Proverbs 12:18
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18 Rash words are like sword thrusts,
but the tongue of the wise brings healing.(A)
Psalm 59:7
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7 There they are, bellowing with their mouths,
with sharp words[a] on their lips,
for “Who,” they think,[b] “will hear us?”(A)
2 Corinthians 11:13
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13 For such boasters are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.(A)
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2 Corinthians 4:2
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2 We have renounced the shameful, underhanded ways; we refuse to practice cunning or to falsify God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we commend ourselves to the conscience of everyone in the sight of God.(A)
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Acts 24:5
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5 We have, in fact, found this man a pestilent fellow, an agitator among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.[a](A)
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- 24.5 Gk Nazoreans
Acts 24:1
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Paul before Felix at Caesarea
24 Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and an attorney, a certain Tertullus, and they reported their case against Paul to the governor.(A)
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Acts 6:11-13
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11 Then they secretly instigated some men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”(A) 12 They stirred up the people as well as the elders and the scribes; then they suddenly confronted him, seized him, and brought him before the council. 13 They set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops saying things against this holy place and the law,(B)
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Matthew 26:59
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59 Now the chief priests and the whole council were looking for false testimony against Jesus so that they might put him to death,
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Jeremiah 18:18
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A Plot against Jeremiah
18 Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for instruction shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us bring charges against him,[a] and let us not heed any of his words.”(A)
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- 18.18 Heb strike him with the tongue
Jeremiah 9:3-4
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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)
4 Beware of your neighbors,
and put no trust in any of your kin,
for all your kin are supplanters,
and every neighbor goes around like a slanderer.(B)
Proverbs 30:14
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14 there are those whose teeth are swords,
whose teeth are knives
to devour the poor from off the earth,
the needy from among mortals.(A)
Proverbs 6:16-19
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16 There are six things that the Lord hates,
seven that are an abomination to him:
17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,(A)
18 a heart that devises wicked plans,
feet that hurry to run to evil,(B)
19 a lying witness who testifies falsely,
and one who sows discord in a family.(C)
Psalm 140:2-3
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2 who plan evil things in their minds
and stir up wars continually.(A)
3 They make their tongue sharp as a snake’s,
and under their lips is the venom of vipers. Selah(B)
Psalm 120:2
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2 “Deliver me, O Lord,
from lying lips,
from a deceitful tongue.”
Psalm 109:2
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2 For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me,
speaking against me with lying tongues.
Psalm 64:2-6
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2 Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked,
from the scheming of evildoers,(A)
3 who whet their tongues like swords,
who aim bitter words like arrows,(B)
4 shooting from ambush at the blameless;
they shoot suddenly and without fear.(C)
5 They hold fast to their evil purpose;
they talk of laying snares secretly,
thinking, “Who can see us?[a](D)
6 Who can search out our crimes?[b]
We have thought out a cunningly conceived plot.”
For the human heart and mind are deep.(E)
Psalm 50:19
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19 You give your mouth free rein for evil,
and your tongue frames deceit.
Revelation 12:10
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10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven proclaiming,
“Now have come the salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God
and the authority of his Messiah,[a]
for the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down,
who accuses them day and night before our God.(A)
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- 12.10 Gk Christ
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