Psalms 52:4

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

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  • Ps 120:3 : 3 What will He give you, and what more will He do to you, deceitful tongue?
  • Jas 3:6-9 : 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting the entire course of life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. 7 Every kind of animal, bird, reptile, and sea creature is tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8 but no one can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.
  • 1 Sam 22:18-19 : 18 The king then commanded Doeg, 'Turn and strike down the priests!' So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck them down. That day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. 19 He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, killing its men and women, children and infants, and also its oxen, donkeys, and sheep.

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    1For the director of music, a contemplative psalm of David.

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

    3Why do you boast about evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all day long.

  • Ps 52:5
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    5You love evil more than good, and falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.

  • Ps 50:19-20
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    19You let your mouth speak evil, and your tongue devises deceit.

    20You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

  • Ps 120:2-3
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    2LORD, deliver my soul from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.

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

  • Ps 5:4-6
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    4In the morning, LORD, You hear my voice; in the morning, I present my request to You and wait expectantly.

    5For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil cannot dwell with You.

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

  • Job 15:5-6
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    5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

    6Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your lips testify against you.

  • Prov 26:28
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    28A lying tongue hates those it crushes, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.

  • Prov 23:8
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    8You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

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

  • Ps 5:9-10
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    9LORD, lead me in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make Your way straight before me.

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

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    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.

  • Ps 34:13
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    13Who is the person who desires life and loves many days to see good?

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

  • Prov 17:4
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    4A wicked person listens to deceitful lips; a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.

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

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    16But to the wicked God says: 'What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?

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    3Truly He is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress, I will never be shaken.

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

  • Isa 57:4
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    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?

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

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

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

  • Job 20:12
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    12Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,

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

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

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    4A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.

  • Rom 3:13-14
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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.

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    7Will you speak unjustly on God's behalf and speak deceitfully for Him?

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    24Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and keep corrupt speech far from you.

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

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    20A crooked heart will not find good, and the one with a deceitful tongue will fall into trouble.

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    18O 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.

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    19Truthful speech endures forever, but a lying tongue lasts only for a moment.

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

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    118You reject all who stray from Your statutes, for their deceitfulness is falsehood.

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

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    13That you turn your spirit against God and let words escape from your mouth?