Psalm 59:12
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12 (A)For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips,
Let them even be taken in their pride,
And for the cursing and lying which they speak.
Proverbs 12:13
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13 (A)The wicked is ensnared by the transgression of his lips,
(B)But the righteous will come through trouble.
Hosea 4:2
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2 By swearing and lying,
Killing and stealing and committing adultery,
They break all restraint,
With bloodshed [a]upon bloodshed.
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:2 Lit. touching
Proverbs 18:7
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Psalm 10:7
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7 (A)His mouth is full of cursing and (B)deceit and oppression;
Under his tongue is trouble and iniquity.
Matthew 12:36-37
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36 But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
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Psalm 120:3-4
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3 What shall be given to you,
Or what shall be done to you,
You false tongue?
4 Sharp arrows of the [a]warrior,
With coals of the broom tree!
Footnotes
- Psalm 120:4 mighty one
Psalm 10:2
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2 The wicked in his pride [a]persecutes the poor;
(A)Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.
Footnotes
- Psalm 10:2 hotly pursues
Luke 23:5
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5 But they were the more fierce, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from (A)Galilee to this place.”
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Matthew 27:63
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63 saying, “Sir, we remember, while He was still alive, how that deceiver said, (A)‘After three days I will rise.’
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Matthew 27:25
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25 And all the people answered and said, (A)“His blood be on us and on our children.”
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Zephaniah 3:11
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11 In that day you shall not be shamed for any of your deeds
In which you transgress against Me;
For then I will take away from your midst
Those who (A)rejoice in your pride,
And you shall no longer be haughty
In My holy mountain.
Proverbs 11:6
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6 The righteousness of the upright will deliver them,
But the unfaithful will be caught by their lust.
Proverbs 6:2
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2 You are snared by the words of your mouth;
You are taken by the words of your mouth.
Psalm 140:9-10
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9 “As for the head of those who surround me,
Let the evil of their lips cover them;
10 (A)Let burning coals fall upon them;
Let them be cast into the fire,
Into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
Psalm 109:17-18
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17 (A)As he loved cursing, so let it come to him;
As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
So let it (B)enter his body like water,
And like oil into his bones.
Psalm 79:12
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12 And return to our neighbors (A)sevenfold into their bosom
(B)Their reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord.
Psalm 64:7-8
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7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow;
Suddenly they shall be wounded.
8 So He will make them stumble over their own tongue;
(A)All who see them shall flee away.
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