Psalms 56:5

American Standard Version (1901)

All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Pet 3:16 : 16 as also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as [they do] also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
  • 1 Sam 18:17 : 17 And Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight Jehovah's battles. For Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.
  • 1 Sam 18:21 : 21 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law a second time.
  • 1 Sam 18:29 : 29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David's enemy continually.
  • 1 Sam 20:7 : 7 If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be wroth, then know that evil is determined by him.
  • 1 Sam 20:33 : 33 And Saul cast his spear at him to smite him; whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to put David to death.
  • Ps 41:7 : 7 All that hate me whisper together against me; Against me do they devise my hurt.
  • Isa 29:20-21 : 20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scoffer ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off; 21 that make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.
  • 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.
  • Matt 22:15 : 15 Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might ensnare him in [his] talk.
  • Matt 26:61 : 61 and said, This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
  • Luke 11:54 : 54 laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth.
  • Luke 22:3-6 : 3 And Satan entered into Judas who was called Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve. 4 And he went away, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might deliver him unto them. 5 And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money. 6 And he consented, and sought opportunity to deliver him unto them in the absence of the multitude.
  • John 2:19 : 19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

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