Psalms 50:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.
  • 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 36:3-4 : 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 52:2-4 : 2 Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade. 3 You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.) 4 Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.
  • Ps 55:12 : 12 For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;
  • Ps 55:21 : 21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords.
  • Ps 64:3-5 : 3 Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words; 4 So that in secret they may let loose their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen. 5 They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,
  • Isa 59:3-4 : 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 9:5 : 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.
  • Hos 4:2 : 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.
  • Rom 3:13-14 : 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:
  • Jas 3:5-9 : 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. 7 For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority; 8 But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death. 9 With it we give praise to our Lord and Father; and with it we put a curse on men who are made in God's image.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.
  • Ps 5:9 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

    6 It 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.

  • Ps 50:20-21
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    20 You say evil of your brother; you make false statements against your mother's son.

    21 These things have you done, and I said nothing; it seemed to you that I was such a one as yourself; but I will make a protest against you, and put them in order before your eyes.

  • Ps 52:2-4
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    2 Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.

    3 You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)

    4 Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.

  • Ps 50:16-18
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    16 But to the sinner, God says, What are you doing, talking of my laws, or taking the words of my agreement in your mouth?

    17 Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words.

    18 When you saw a thief, you were in agreement with him, and you were joined with those who took other men's wives.

  • Ps 34:13
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    13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of 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 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Job 15:13
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    13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

  • 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.

  • Prov 17:20
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    20 Nothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble.

  • 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.

  • 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,

  • Jer 9:5
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    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.

  • Prov 6:2
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    2 You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.

  • Isa 59:3
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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.

  • 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 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,

  • Prov 4:24
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    24 Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.

  • Rom 3:13-14
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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:

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

  • 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 16:30
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    30 He whose eyes are shut is a man of twisted purposes, and he who keeps his lips shut tight makes evil come about.

  • Job 13:7
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    7 Will you say in God's name what is not right, and put false words into his mouth?

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

  • 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.

  • Eccl 5:6
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    6 Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.

  • Prov 6:12
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    12 A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;

  • Prov 2:12
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    12 Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;

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

  • Prov 10:18-19
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    18 Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.

    19 Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.

  • Matt 12:34
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    34 You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.

  • 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 30:32
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    32 If you have done foolishly in lifting yourself up, or if you have had evil designs, put your hand over your mouth.

  • Matt 15:19
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    19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:

  • 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?

  • Job 27:4
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    4 Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my tongue does not say what is false.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Prov 6:14
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    14 His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.