Jeremiah 9:5

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Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

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  • Job 15:5 : 5 For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.
  • Mic 6:12 : 12 For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?
  • Eph 4:25 : 25 And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.
  • 1 Tim 4:2 : 2 Through the false ways of men whose words are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron;
  • Gen 19:11 : 11 But the men who were outside the door they made blind, all of them, small and great, so that they were tired out with looking for the door.
  • Job 11:3 : 3 Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?
  • Ps 7:14 : 14 That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.
  • Ps 50:19 : 19 You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.
  • Ps 64:3 : 3 Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;
  • Ps 140:3 : 3 Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.
  • Isa 5:18 : 18 Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!
  • Isa 41:6-7 : 6 They gave help everyone to his neighbour; and everyone said to his brother, Take heart! 7 So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.
  • Isa 44:12-14 : 12 The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble. 13 The woodworker is measuring out the wood with his line, marking it out with his pencil: after smoothing it with his plane, and making circles on it with his instrument, he gives it the form and glory of a man, so that it may be placed in the house. 14 He has cedars cut down for himself, he takes an oak and lets it get strong among the trees of the wood; he has an ash-tree planted, and the rain gives it growth.
  • Isa 57:10 : 10 You were tired with your long journeys; but you did not say, There is no hope: you got new strength, and so you were not feeble.
  • Isa 59:13-15 : 13 We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit. 14 And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town. 15 Yes, faith is gone; and he whose heart is turned from evil comes into the power of the cruel: and the Lord saw it, and he was angry that there was no one to take up their cause.
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.
  • Jer 9:8 : 8 His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.
  • Ezek 24:12 : 12 I have made myself tired to no purpose: still all the waste which is in her has not come out, it has an evil smell.
  • Mic 6:3 : 3 O my people, what have I done to you? how have I been a weariness to you? give answer against me.

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    3 Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

    4 Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.

  • Jer 9:6
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    6 There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8 His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.

  • Ps 12:2
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    2 Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

  • Ps 5:9
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    9 For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

  • Mic 6:12
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    12 For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

  • Isa 59:3-4
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    3 For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.

    4 No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

  • Jer 6:13
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    13 For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

  • Ps 35:20
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    20 For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19 You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.

  • Rom 3:13
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    13 Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

  • Job 15:35
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    35 Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

  • Isa 59:13
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    13 We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.

  • Ps 52:2
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    2 Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.

  • Ps 5:6
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    6 You will send destruction on those whose words are false; the cruel man and the man of deceit are hated by the Lord.

  • Jer 7:8
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    8 See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.

  • Prov 26:19
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    19 So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?

  • Zech 8:17
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    17 Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.

  • Prov 12:20
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    20 Deceit is in the heart of those whose designs are evil, but for those purposing peace there is joy.

  • Hos 7:3
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    3 In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.

  • Ps 144:8
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    8 In whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.

  • Jer 5:11-12
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    11 For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.

    12 They would have nothing to do with the Lord, saying, He will do nothing, and no evil will come to us; we will not see the sword or be short of food:

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    2 And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.

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    3 In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

  • Prov 12:22
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    22 False lips are hated by the Lord, but those whose acts are true are his delight.

  • Ps 55:11
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    11 Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9 Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

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    10 So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will take them for themselves: for everyone, from the least to the greatest, is given up to getting money; from the priest even to the prophet, everyone is false.

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    2 For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12 Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

  • Ps 73:9
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    9 Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.

  • Isa 57:4
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    4 Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,

  • Ps 64:5
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    5 They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,

  • Ps 78:36
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    36 But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him;

  • Obad 1:7
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    7 All the men who were united with you have been false to you, driving you out to the edge of the land: the men who were at peace with you have overcome you; they have taken their heritage in your place.

  • Hos 4:2
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    2 There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

  • Prov 17:4
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    4 A wrongdoer gives attention to evil lips, and a man of deceit gives ear to a damaging tongue.

  • Ps 101:7
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    7 The worker of deceit will not come into my house; the false man will have no place before my eyes.

  • Ps 62:4
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    4 Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)

  • Prov 6:19
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    19 A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.

  • Jer 5:26
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    26 For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

  • Job 15:5
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    5 For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.

  • Prov 29:5
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    5 A man who says smooth things to his neighbour is stretching out a net for his steps.

  • Ps 109:2
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    2 For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.

  • Jer 12:6
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    6 For even your brothers, your father's family, even they have been untrue to you, crying loudly after you: have no faith in them, though they say fair words to you.

  • Prov 19:5
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    5 A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will not go free.