Psalms 12:4

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Whiche say, we wyll preuayle with our tongue: our lippes are our owne, who is Lorde ouer vs?

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  • Jas 3:5-6 : 5 Euen so the tongue is a litle member also, & boasteth great thynges. Beholde how great a matter a litle fire kindleth. 6 And the tongue is fyre, euen a worlde of wickednesse. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fyre the course of nature, & it is set on fyre of hell.
  • Gen 3:5 : 5 For God doth knowe, that the same day that ye eate therof, your eyes shall be opened, and ye shalbe eue as gods, knowyng good and euyll.
  • Exod 5:2 : 2 And Pharao sayde: who is the Lorde that I shoulde heare his voyce, and let Israel go? I knowe not the Lorde, neyther wyll I let Israel go.
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 They say also vnto God: Go from vs, we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes. 15 Who is the almightie that we should serue him? And what profite should we haue if we should pray vnto him?
  • Jer 2:31 : 31 Oh generation, hearken vnto the worde of the Lorde: Am I become a wildernesse vnto the people of Israel? or a lande that hath no lyght? wherfore saith my people then, We are lordes, we wyll come no more vnto thee?
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then sayd they, Come, let vs imagine somethyng agaynst this Ieremie: for the priestes shall not be destitute of the lawe, neither shall the wise men be destitute of counsayle, nor the prophetes destitute of the worde of God: Come, and let vs smite hym with the tongue, and let vs not marke all his wordes.
  • Dan 3:15 : 15 Nowe therfore be redy when ye heare the sound of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, shawme, psaltries, dulcimers, and al instrumentes of musicke, to fal downe and worship the image whiche I haue made: for if ye worship it not, ye shalbe cast immediatly into the mids of a hot firie fornace: for who is that God that can deliuer you out of my handes?
  • 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 Whiche is an aduersarie, and is exalted aboue all that is called God, or that is worshipped: so that he as God, sitteth in the temple of God, shewing hym selfe that he is God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 12:2-3
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    2Euery one vseth vayne talke with his neyghbour: and speaketh with a double heart out of flatteryng lippes.

    3God wyll cut away all flatteryng lippes: and the tongue that speaketh great thinges.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12The wordes of their lippes be the sinne of their mouth: O let them be taken in their pryde, for they speake nothing but curses and lies.

  • Ps 59:7
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    7Behold they speake with their mouth, swordes are in their lippes: for say they who doth heare vs?

  • Ps 73:8-9
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    72%

    8They make other dissolute, they speake oppression with iniurie: they talke proudely and presumptuously.

    9For they stretch foorth their mouth vnto the heauen: and their tongue goeth through the worlde.

  • Ps 2:2-4
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    72%

    2The kynges of the earth stande vp: and the rulers take counsell together against god, and against his annointed.

    3Let vs breake say they their bondes a sunder: and cast away their cordes from vs.

    4He that dwelleth in heauen wyll laugh them to scorne: the Lorde wyll haue them in derision.

  • Lam 5:8
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    8Seruauntes haue the rule of vs, and no man deliuereth vs out of their handes.

  • Ps 94:4
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    4All such as be workers of iniquitie: they babble, they prate shoutly, they make boastes of them selues.

  • Ps 17:10-11
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    71%

    10They haue nowe compassed me on euery syde where our way lyeth: they toote with their eyes to ouerthrow me downe on the grounde.

    11His doynges be lyke a lions that is greedy to take a pray: and as a lions whelpe lurkyng in secrete places.

  • Ps 31:18
    71%

    18Let the lying lippes be put to scilence: which speake against ye righteous greeuous thinges with disdaine & contempt.

  • Ps 12:5
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    5For the calamities of the oppressed, for the deepe sighyng of the poore, I wyll nowe vp sayeth God: and I wyll put in safetie, hym whom the wicked hath snared.

  • Lam 3:46
    71%

    46All our enemies gape vpon vs.

  • Ps 140:9
    71%

    9Let the labour of his owne lippe couer him: who is head of them that compasse me about.

  • Mal 3:13
    70%

    13Your wordes haue ben stout against me saith the lorde: and you saide, Wherein haue we spoken against thee?

  • Ps 83:12
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    12Whiche sayd, let vs take to our selues: the houses of God in possession.

  • Ps 35:25
    69%

    25Let them not say in their heart, it is as we woulde haue it: neither let them say, we haue deuoured hym.

  • Ps 123:4
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    4Our soule is filled with the scornefull reprofe of the wealthy: and with the dispitefulnes of the proude.

  • Isa 26:13
    69%

    13O Lord our God, other lordes beside thee hath subdued vs: but we wyll be mindfull only of thee and of thy name.

  • Ps 124:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5Then the waters of the proude: had flowed ouer our soule.

    6But blessed be God, whiche hath not geuen vs ouer for a pray vnto their teeth.

  • Amos 6:13
    68%

    13Ye reioyce in a thing of naught, ye say: Haue not we gotten vs hornes by our owne strength?

  • Acts 4:25
    68%

    25Which by the mouth of thy seruaunt Dauid, hast sayde: Why dyd the Heathen rage, & the people imagine vayne thynges?

  • Ps 5:9
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    9For no trueth is in their mouth, their inwarde partes are very wickednesse: their throte is an open sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue.

  • Isa 57:4
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    4Wherin take ye your pleasure? vpon whom gape ye with your mouth, and bleare out your tongue? Are ye not children of transgression, and a seede of dissimulation?

  • Ps 120:2-3
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    2Deliuer my soule O God from false lyppes: & from a deceiptful tongue.

    3What doth a deceiptfull tongue vnto thee? what good bryngeth it thee?

  • Ps 140:3
    68%

    3They haue sharpened their tongue lyke a serpent: Adders poyson is vnder their lippes. Selah.

  • Lam 3:62
    68%

    62The lippes of mine enemies, and their deuises that they take against me al the day long.

  • Job 15:5-6
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    68%

    5For thy mouth setteth forth thyne owne iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen the tongue of the craftie.

    6Thyne owne mouth condempneth thee, and not I: yea, thyne owne lippes shape an aunswere against thee.

  • Isa 59:13
    68%

    13namely transgresse and dissemble against the Lorde, and fall away from our God, vsing presumpteous and trayterous imaginations, and casting false matters in our heartes.

  • Ps 64:8
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    8Yea they shall cause their owne tongues to be a meanes for to destroy the selues: insomuch that who so seeth them, shal desire to flee away from them

  • Ps 10:7
    67%

    7His mouth is full of cursing, and of deceate, and of fraude: vnder his tongue is labour and mischiefe.

  • Ps 126:2
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    2Then shall our mouth be filled with a laughter: and our tongue with a ioyfull noyse. Then shall suche as be amongst the Heathen say: God hath brought great thinges to passe, that he myght do for them.

  • Jer 5:12
    67%

    12They haue denied the Lorde and sayde, It is not he that loketh vpon vs tushe, there shall no misfortune come vpon vs, we shall see neither sworde nor hunger.

  • Prov 14:3
    67%

    3In the mouth of the foolishe is the rodde of pryde: but the lippes of the wyse wyll preserue them.

  • Lam 2:16
    67%

    16All thyne enemies gape vpon thee, whispering and grinding their teeth, saying: let vs deuour, for the tyme that we looked for is come, we haue founde and seene it.

  • Job 26:4
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    4To whom hast thou spoken these wordes? who made the breath to come out of thy mouth?

  • Lam 4:20
    67%

    20The very breath of our mouth, euen the annointed of the Lorde hym selfe, was taken in their net, of whom we say, Under his shadowe we shalbe preserued among the heathen.

  • 1 Sam 2:3
    67%

    3Talke no more proudly, let not arrogancie come out of your mouthes: for the Lorde is a God of knowledge, and his purposes come to passe.

  • Isa 28:11
    67%

    11For he that speaketh vnto this people, is euen as one that vseth rudenesse of speache, and a straunge language.

  • Ps 51:15
    67%

    15O Lorde open thou my lippes: and my mouth shall set foorth thy prayse.

  • Lam 3:37
    67%

    37What is he then that saith, there should some thing be done without the Lordes commaundement?

  • Rom 3:13-14
    2 verses
    67%

    13Their throte is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they haue deceaued, the poyso of aspes is vnder their lippes.

    14Whose mouth is full of cursyng and bytternesse.

  • Zeph 2:10
    67%

    10This shall happen vnto them for their pryde, because they haue dealt so shamefully with the Lorde of hoastes people, and magnified them selues aboue them.