Psalms 12:3

American Standard Version (1901)

Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaketh great things;

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  • Dan 7:8 : 8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
  • Rev 13:5 : 5 and there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to continue forty and two months.
  • Dan 4:30-31 : 30 The king spake and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty? 31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, [saying], O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken: The kingdom is departed from thee:
  • Ps 17:10 : 10 They are inclosed in their own fat: With their mouth they speak proudly.
  • Prov 18:21 : 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
  • Isa 10:10 : 10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
  • Ezek 28:2 : 2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art man, and not God, though thou didst set thy heart as the heart of God;--
  • Ezek 28:9 : 9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou art man, and not God, in the hand of him that woundeth thee.
  • Ezek 29:3 : 3 speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lieth in the midst of his rivers, that hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
  • Exod 15:9 : 9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
  • 1 Sam 2:3 : 3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth; For Jehovah is a God of knowledge, And by him actions are weighed.
  • 1 Sam 17:43-44 : 43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the birds of the heavens, and to the beasts of the field.
  • 2 Kgs 19:23-24 : 23 By thy messengers thou hast defied the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof; and I will enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field. 24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
  • Job 32:22 : 22 For I know not to give flattering titles; [Else] would my Maker soon take me away.
  • Ps 73:8-9 : 8 They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily. 9 They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth.
  • Dan 7:25 : 25 And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
  • Mal 3:13 : 13 Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;
  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaketh great swelling [words] ), showing respect of persons for the sake of advantage.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

  • 4Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; Our lips are our own: Who is lord over us?

  • 18Let the lying lips be dumb, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.

  • 12[ For] the sin of their mouth, [and] the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for cursing and lying which they speak.

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    31The mouth of the righteous bringeth forth wisdom; But the perverse tongue shall be cut off.

    32The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable; But the mouth of the wicked [speaketh] perverseness.

  • 22Lying lips are an abomination to Jehovah; But they that deal truly are his delight.

  • 28A lying tongue hateth those whom it hath wounded; And a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

  • Ps 120:2-3
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    2Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, [And] from a deceitful tongue.

    3What shall be given unto thee, and what shall be done more unto thee, Thou deceitful tongue?

  • 19The lip of truth shall be established for ever; But a lying tongue is but for a moment.

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    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.

  • 24Put away from thee a wayward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee.

  • 10They are inclosed in their own fat: With their mouth they speak proudly.

  • 4Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

  • 5Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I destroy: Him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.

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    6Thou wilt destroy them that speak lies: Jehovah abhorreth the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.

  • 9As for the head of those that compass me about, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

  • 7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

  • 2Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

  • 3In the mouth of the foolish is a rod for [his] pride; But the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

  • 11But the king shall rejoice in God: Every one that sweareth by him shall glory; For the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

  • 3Talk no more so exceeding proudly; Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth; For Jehovah is a God of knowledge, And by him actions are weighed.

  • 3They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders' poison is under their lips. {{Selah

  • 13Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile.

  • 3Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips.

  • Ps 36:2-3
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    2For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, That his iniquity will not be found out and be hated.

    3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath ceased to be wise [and] to do good.

  • 9They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth.

  • Rom 3:13-14
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    13Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

    14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

  • 7For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

  • 4Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

  • 2Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips.

  • 36But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto him with their tongue.

  • 12The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

  • 3For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, And the covetous renounceth, [yea], contemneth Jehovah.

  • 13Righteous lips are the delight of kings; And they love him that speaketh right.

  • 7Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, [say they], doth hear?

  • 12For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low;

  • 4An evil-doer giveth heed to wicked lips; [And] a liar giveth ear to a mischievous tongue.

  • 8Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • 17Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;

  • 9Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

  • 11Nay, but by [men of] strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people;

  • 3And they bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.

  • 5A man that flattereth his neighbor Spreadeth a net for his steps.

  • 8So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.

  • 10This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts.

  • 3He that slandereth not with his tongue, Nor doeth evil to his friend, Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor;