Psalms 12:4
Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; Our lips are our own: Who is lord over us?
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- Jas 3:5-6 : 5 So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.
- Gen 3:5 : 5 for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.
- Exod 5:2 : 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, that I should hearken unto his voice to let Israel go? I know not Jehovah, and moreover I will not let Israel go.
- Job 21:14-15 : 14 And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
- Jer 2:31 : 31 O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? or a land of thick darkness? wherefore say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more unto thee?
- Jer 18:18 : 18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
- Dan 3:15 : 15 Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well] : but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?
- 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God.
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- Ps 12:2-32 verses81%
2 They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.
3 Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaketh great things;
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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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7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, [say they], doth hear?
- Ps 73:8-92 verses72%
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.
- Ps 2:2-43 verses72%
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against Jehovah, and against his anointed, [saying] ,
3 Let us break their bonds asunder, And cast away their cords from us.
4 He that sitteth in the heavens will laugh: The Lord will have them in derision.
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8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
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4 They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
- Ps 17:10-112 verses71%
10 They are inclosed in their own fat: With their mouth they speak proudly.
11 They have now compassed us in our steps; They set their eyes to cast [us] down to the earth.
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18 Let the lying lips be dumb, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.
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5 Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; I will set him in the safety he panteth for.
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46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
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9 As for the head of those that compass me about, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
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13 Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?
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12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession The habitations of God.
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25 Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it: Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
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4 Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scoffing of those that are at ease, And with the contempt of the proud.
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13 O Jehovah our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us; but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
- Ps 124:5-62 verses69%
5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
6 Blessed be Jehovah, Who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
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13 ye that rejoice in a thing of nought, that say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
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25 who by the Holy Spirit, [by] the mouth of our father David thy servant, didst say, Why did the Gentiles rage, And the peoples imagine vain things?
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9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.
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4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
- Ps 120:2-32 verses68%
2 Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, [And] from a deceitful tongue.
3 What shall be given unto thee, and what shall be done more unto thee, Thou deceitful tongue?
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3 They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders' poison is under their lips. {{Selah
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62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
- Job 15:5-62 verses68%
5 For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
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13 transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
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8 So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.
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7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
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2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing: Then said they among the nations, Jehovah hath done great things for them.
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12 They have denied Jehovah, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
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3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod for [his] pride; But the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
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16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
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4 To whom hast thou uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from thee?
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20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.
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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.
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11 Nay, but by [men of] strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people;
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15 O Lord, open thou my lips; And my mouth shall show forth thy praise.
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37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
- Rom 3:13-142 verses67%
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
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10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts.