Psalms 5:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Rom 3:13 : 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:
  • Ps 62:4 : 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.)
  • Ps 51:6 : 6 Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.
  • Luke 11:44 : 44 A curse is on you! for you are like the resting-places of dead men, which are not seen, and men go walking over them without knowledge of it.
  • 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.
  • Jer 9:3-6 : 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. 5 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. 6 There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.
  • Ps 58:2-3 : 2 The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth. 3 The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.
  • Job 32:21-22 : 21 Let me not give respect to any man, or give names of honour to any living. 22 For I am not able to give names of honour to any man; and if I did, my Maker would quickly take me away.
  • Ps 12:2-3 : 2 Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit. 3 The smooth lips and the tongue of pride will be cut off by the Lord.
  • Ps 36:1-4 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord. Of David.> The sin of the evil-doer says in his heart, There is no fear of the Lord before his eyes. 2 For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated. 3 In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good. 4 He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.
  • Ps 64:6 : 6 Or make discovery of our secret purpose? The design is framed with care; and the inner thought of a man, and his heart, is deep.
  • Ps 111:1-3 : 1 Let the Lord be praised. I will give praise to the Lord with all my heart, among the upright, and in the meeting of the people. 2 The works of the Lord are great, searched out by all those who have delight in them. 3 His work is full of honour and glory; and his righteousness is unchanging for ever.
  • Prov 29:5 : 5 A man who says smooth things to his neighbour is stretching out a net for his steps.
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?
  • Mark 7:21-22 : 21 Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures, 22 The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:
  • Luke 11:39 : 39 And the Lord said to him, You Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the plate clean; but inside you are thieves and full of evil.
  • Rom 1:29-31 : 29 Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others; 30 Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother, 31 Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy:
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 3:13-15
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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:

    14 Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

    15 Their feet are quick in running after blood;

  • 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.

  • Jer 9:3-6
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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.

    5 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.

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

  • Ps 12:2-3
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    79%

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

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

  • Ps 5:10
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    10 Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.

  • 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 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.

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

  • Ps 140:3
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    3 Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)

  • Ps 73:8-9
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    8 Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.

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

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

  • Prov 26:28
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    28 A false tongue has hate for those who have clean hearts, and a smooth mouth is a cause of falling.

  • Ps 59:7
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    7 See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to 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.

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

  • Prov 24:2
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    2 For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.

  • 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.

  • Ps 36:3
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    3 In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

  • 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.

  • Ps 52:2
    74%

    2 Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.

  • Prov 8:7
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    7 For good faith goes out of my mouth, and false lips are disgusting to me.

  • 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.

  • 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 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.)

  • Ps 52:4
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    4 Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.

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

  • 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 140:9
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    9 As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.

  • Prov 26:24-26
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    73%

    24 With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;

    25 When he says fair words, have no belief in him; for in his heart are seven evils:

    26 Though his hate is covered with deceit, his sin will be seen openly before the meeting of the people.

  • Ps 17:10
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    10 They are shut up in their fat: with their mouths they say words of pride.

  • 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.

  • Job 20:12
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    12 Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;

  • Ps 120:3
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    3 What punishment will he give you? what more will he do to you, you false tongue?

  • 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.

  • Prov 10:31
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    31 The mouth of the upright man is budding with wisdom, but the twisted tongue will be cut off.

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

  • 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 28:3
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    3 Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

  • Ps 58:4
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    4 Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;