Psalms 12:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They have said, With our tongues will we overcome; our lips are ours: who is lord over us?

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Referenced Verses

  • Jas 3:5-6 : 5 Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.
  • Gen 3:5 : 5 For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil.
  • Exod 5:2 : 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, to whose voice I am to give ear and let Israel go? I have no knowledge of the Lord and I will not let Israel go.
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways. 15 What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?
  • Jer 2:31 : 31 O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.
  • Dan 3:15 : 15 Now if you are ready, on hearing the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all sorts of instruments, to go down on your faces in worship before the image which I have made, it is well: but if you will not give worship, that same hour you will be put into a burning and flaming fire; and what god is there who will be able to take you out of my hands?
  • 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 Who puts himself against all authority, lifting himself up over all which is named God or is given worship; so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, putting himself forward as God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 12:2-3
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    2Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

    3The smooth lips and the tongue of pride will be cut off by the Lord.

  • Ps 59:12
    74%

    12Because 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 59:7
    73%

    7See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?

  • Ps 73:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.

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

  • Ps 2:2-4
    3 verses
    72%

    2The kings of the earth have taken their place, and the rulers are fixed in their purpose, against the Lord, and against the king of his selection, saying,

    3Let their chains be broken, and their cords taken from off us.

    4Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.

  • Lam 5:8
    72%

    8Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.

  • Ps 94:4
    72%

    4Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.

  • Ps 17:10-11
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    71%

    10They are shut up in their fat: with their mouths they say words of pride.

    11They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

  • Ps 31:18
    71%

    18Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

  • Ps 12:5
    71%

    5Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.

  • Lam 3:46
    71%

    46The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.

  • Ps 140:9
    71%

    9As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.

  • Mal 3:13
    70%

    13Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?

  • Ps 83:12
    70%

    12Who have said, Let us take for our heritage the resting-place of God.

  • Ps 35:25
    69%

    25Let them not say in their hearts, So we will have it: let them not say, We have put an end to him.

  • Ps 123:4
    69%

    4For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.

  • Isa 26:13
    69%

    13O Lord, our God, other lords than you have had rule over us; but in you only is our salvation, and no other name will we take on our lips.

  • Ps 124:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5Yes, the waters of pride would have gone over our soul.

    6Praise be to the Lord, who has not let us be wounded by their teeth.

  • Amos 6:13
    68%

    13You whose joy is in a thing of no value, who say, Have we not taken for ourselves horns by the strength which is ours?

  • Acts 4:25
    68%

    25Who has said, by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David your servant, Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish?

  • Ps 5:9
    68%

    9For 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.

  • Isa 57:4
    68%

    4Of 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 120:2-3
    2 verses
    68%

    2O Lord, be the saviour of my soul from false lips, and from the tongue of deceit.

    3What punishment will he give you? what more will he do to you, you false tongue?

  • Ps 140:3
    68%

    3Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)

  • Lam 3:62
    68%

    62The lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day.

  • Job 15:5-6
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    5For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.

    6It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.

  • Isa 59:13
    68%

    13We 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 64:8
    68%

    8The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.

  • Ps 10:7
    67%

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

  • Ps 126:2
    67%

    2Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them.

  • Jer 5:12
    67%

    12They 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:

  • Prov 14:3
    67%

    3In the mouth of the foolish man is a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will keep them safe.

  • Lam 2:16
    67%

    16All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.

  • Job 26:4
    67%

    4To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?

  • Lam 4:20
    67%

    20Our breath of life, he on whom the holy oil was put, was taken in their holes; of whom we said, Under his shade we will be living among the nations.

  • 1 Sam 2:3
    67%

    3Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged.

  • Isa 28:11
    67%

    11No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people:

  • Ps 51:15
    67%

    15O Lord, let my lips be open, so that my mouth may make clear your praise.

  • Lam 3:37
    67%

    37Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?

  • Rom 3:13-14
    2 verses
    67%

    13Their 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:

    14Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

  • Zeph 2:10
    67%

    10This will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.