Psalms 5:9

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LORD, lead me in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make Your way straight before me.

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  • Rom 3:13 : 13 "Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit." "The venom of vipers is under their lips."
  • Ps 62:4 : 4 How long will you assault a man? Would you all throw him down—like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?
  • Ps 51:6 : 6 Against you, you alone, I have sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified when you speak and blameless when you judge.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 When Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul, saying, 'David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.'
  • Luke 11:44 : 44 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like unmarked graves that people walk over without knowing.
  • Mic 6:12 : 12 Her rich men are full of violence; her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
  • Jer 9:3-6 : 3 Beware of your neighbor; do not trust even a brother. Every brother utterly deceives, and every friend spreads slander. 4 Each one deceives his neighbor, and they do not speak the truth. They have trained their tongues to speak lies and exhaust themselves with wrongdoing. 5 You live in the midst of deceit, and because of deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the Lord. 6 Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says: Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the sin of my people?
  • Ps 58:2-3 : 2 Do you rulers truly speak justice? Do you judge people with fairness? 3 No, in your hearts you devise injustice; your hands mete out violence on the earth.
  • Job 32:21-22 : 21 I will not show partiality to anyone, nor will I flatter any person. 22 For I do not know how to flatter; otherwise, my Maker would take me away swiftly.
  • Ps 12:2-3 : 2 Help, LORD, for the godly have vanished; the faithful have disappeared from among humanity. 3 Everyone speaks falsehood to their neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
  • Ps 36:1-4 : 1 To the choirmaster, a servant of the Lord, a psalm of David. 2 An oracle of transgression speaks to the wicked within his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes. 3 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, thinking his iniquity will not be discovered or hated. 4 The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; he has stopped being wise and doing good.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to Him, for God is our refuge. Selah.
  • Ps 64:6 : 6 They encourage each other in evil plans; they talk about hiding snares and say, 'Who will see them?'
  • Ps 111:1-3 : 1 Praise the Lord! I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart, in the council of the upright and in the assembly. 2 The works of the Lord are great, studied by all who take delight in them. 3 Splendor and majesty are His work, and His righteousness endures forever.
  • Prov 29:5 : 5 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things and incurable—who can understand it?
  • Mark 7:21-22 : 21 For from within, out of the human heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, 22 adulteries, greed, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
  • Luke 11:39 : 39 Then the Lord said to him, 'Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
  • Rom 1:29-31 : 29 They have become filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they are senseless, faithless, unloving, unforgiving, and unmerciful.
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For we never used words of flattery, as you know, nor did we put forth a pretext for greed—God is our witness.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 3:13-15
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    13"Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit." "The venom of vipers is under their lips."

    14Their mouths are full of curses and bitterness.

    15Their feet are swift to shed blood.

  • 7His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and iniquity.

  • Jer 9:3-6
    4 verses
    80%

    3Beware of your neighbor; do not trust even a brother. Every brother utterly deceives, and every friend spreads slander.

    4Each one deceives his neighbor, and they do not speak the truth. They have trained their tongues to speak lies and exhaust themselves with wrongdoing.

    5You live in the midst of deceit, and because of deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.

    6Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says: Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the sin of my people?

  • Ps 12:2-3
    2 verses
    79%

    2Help, LORD, for the godly have vanished; the faithful have disappeared from among humanity.

    3Everyone speaks falsehood to their neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

  • 10For there is no truth in their mouths; their hearts are filled with destruction. Their throats are open graves; they flatter with their tongues.

  • 8Should I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord. Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?

  • 2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have opened against me; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

  • 12Do not kill them, Lord, or my people will forget. Scatter them by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

  • 36But they deceived Him with their mouths and lied to Him with their tongues.

  • 3They devise wicked schemes in their hearts and stir up conflicts all day long.

  • Ps 73:8-9
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    8They scoff and speak with malice; with arrogance, they threaten oppression.

    9They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut through the earth.

  • 19You let your mouth speak evil, and your tongue devises deceit.

  • 28A lying tongue hates those it crushes, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.

  • 7They return in the evening, snarling like dogs as they prowl the city.

  • 5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

  • 8Whose mouths speak falsehood and whose right hand is a right hand of deception.

  • 2For their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk of trouble.

  • 12Her rich men are full of violence; her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

  • 3For he flatters himself in his own eyes, thinking his iniquity will not be discovered or hated.

  • Isa 59:3-4
    2 verses
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    3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsehood, and your tongue mutters injustice.

    4No 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.

  • 2When Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul, saying, 'David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.'

  • 7For my mouth speaks truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips.

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    6The arrogant cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all evildoers.

  • 20For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

  • 4How long will you assault a man? Would you all throw him down—like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?

  • 4Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, you worker of deceit.

  • 3They please the king with their evil and the princes with their lies.

  • 4Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open wide your mouth and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of rebellion, offspring of deceit?

  • 9Do not grant the desires of the wicked, O LORD; do not let their plans succeed, lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

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    24An enemy disguises themselves with their lips, but in their heart, they harbor deceit.

    25Though they speak graciously, do not believe them, for there are seven abominations in their heart.

    26Though hatred is concealed by deceit, its wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

  • 10They close up their hearts to compassion; they speak with arrogance.

  • 9The 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.

  • 12Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,

  • 3What will He give you, and what more will He do to you, deceitful tongue?

  • 4A wicked person listens to deceitful lips; a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.

  • 31The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but a perverse tongue will be cut off.

  • 22Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who act faithfully are His delight.

  • 5A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.

  • 3Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who do evil, who speak peace to their neighbors but harbor evil in their hearts.

  • 4Even from birth, the wicked are estranged; from the womb, they go astray, speaking lies.