Proverbs 6:17

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haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

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  • Prov 12:22 : 22 Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who act faithfully are His delight.
  • Ps 101:5 : 5 Whoever secretly slanders their neighbor, I will silence. Whoever has proud eyes and an arrogant heart, I cannot endure.
  • Isa 1:15 : 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you. Even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood.
  • Ps 120:2-3 : 2 LORD, deliver my soul from lying lips and a deceitful tongue. 3 What will He give you, and what more will He do to you, deceitful tongue?
  • Ps 18:27 : 27 To the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
  • Deut 19:10 : 10 This is to prevent the shedding of innocent blood within the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.
  • Ps 5:6 : 6 The arrogant cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all evildoers.
  • Isa 2:11 : 11 The haughty eyes of mankind will be brought low, and humanity's pride will be humbled. The Lord alone will be exalted on that day.
  • Isa 3:9 : 9 The look on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom, they openly declare their sin; they do not try to conceal it. Woe to them! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
  • Isa 3:16 : 16 The LORD says, 'Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, walking with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, taking short, mincing steps, and jingling ornaments on their feet,
  • Prov 14:5 : 5 A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.
  • Prov 21:4 : 4 Haughty eyes and a proud heart—the lamp of the wicked—is sin.
  • Prov 26:28 : 28 A lying tongue hates those it crushes, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.
  • Prov 30:13 : 13 There is a generation whose eyes are so arrogant, whose eyelids are lifted up in pride.
  • Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say, 'Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without cause;'
  • Prov 17:7 : 7 Eloquent speech is not fitting for a fool; how much less deceitful speech for a ruler!
  • Isa 59:3-7 : 3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsehood, and your tongue mutters injustice. 4 No one calls for justice, and no one pleads with integrity. They rely on empty words and speak lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity. 5 They hatch the eggs of vipers and spin spider webs. Whoever eats their eggs dies, and when one is crushed, a viper hatches. 6 Their webs will not become clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands. 7 Their feet run to do evil, and they are quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; ruin and destruction are in their paths.
  • Hos 4:1-2 : 1 Hear the word of the LORD, O people of Israel! For the LORD has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: there is no truth, no steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land. 2 There is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
  • John 8:44 : 44 You are from your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 In the same way, you younger ones, submit yourselves to the elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
  • Rev 22:15 : 15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
  • Ps 10:4 : 4 In his pride, the wicked man says, 'He will not seek; there is no God in all his thoughts.'
  • Deut 27:25 : 25 Cursed is anyone who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • 2 Kgs 24:4 : 4 And also because of the innocent blood that he had shed, for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to pardon.
  • Ps 31:18 : 18 O LORD, let me not be put to shame, for I have called out to you. Let the wicked be put to shame; let them be silent in the grave.
  • Ps 73:6-8 : 6 Therefore, pride is their necklace; violence clothes them like a garment. 7 Their eyes bulge from fatness; their imaginations overflow with malice. 8 They scoff and speak with malice; with arrogance, they threaten oppression.
  • Ps 131:1 : 1 A song of ascents. LORD, my heart is not proud, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with matters too great or too wonderful for me.

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