Psalms 55:21

Bishops' Bible (1568)

The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his wordes were smother then oyle, and yet be they very swordes.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 28:3 : 3 Take me not away with the vngodlye, and with the workers of iniquitie: whiche speake of peace to their neighbours, but mischiefe is in their heartes.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soule is among Lions, and I lye among those that are set on fire: among the children of men whose teeth are speares and arrowes, and their tongue a sharpe sword.
  • Prov 5:3-4 : 3 For the lippes of a straunge woman are a dropping hony combe, and her throte is more glistering then oyle: 4 But at the laste she is as bitter as wormewood, and as sharpe as a two edged sworde.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 A slaunderous person pricketh lyke a sworde: but a wise mans tongue is wholsome.
  • Prov 26:24-26 : 24 An enemie wyll dissemble with his lippes, and layeth vp deceipt in his heart. 25 But when he speaketh fayre, beleue hym not: for there are seuen abhominations in his heart. 26 Hatred maye be couered by deceipt: but the malice therof shalbe shewed before the whole congregation.
  • Prov 26:28 : 28 A lying tongue hateth the afflicted: and a flattering mouth worketh mischiefe.
  • Matt 26:25 : 25 Then Iudas, which betrayed hym aunswered and sayde: Maister, is it I? He sayde vnto hym, thou hast sayde.
  • Luke 20:20-21 : 20 And they watched hym, & sent foorth spyes, which shoulde fayne them selues ryghteous men, to take hym in his wordes, and to delyuer hym vnto the power and aucthoritie of the deputie. 21 And they asked him, saying: Maister, we knowe that thou sayest and teachest ryght, neither considerest thou the outwarde appearaunce of any man, but teachest the way of God truely:
  • John 13:2 : 2 And when supper was ended (after that the deuyll had put in the heart of Iudas Iscariot Simons sonne, to betray hym)
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold they speake with their mouth, swordes are in their lippes: for say they who doth heare vs?
  • Ps 62:4 : 4 They deuise only howe to thrust him from his promotion: they delight in a lye, they blesse with their mouth, and curse with their heart. Selah.
  • Ps 64:3 : 3 Who haue whet their tongue lyke a sword: who haue drawne their arrow, euen a bitter worde.
  • Ps 12:2 : 2 Euery one vseth vayne talke with his neyghbour: and speaketh with a double heart out of flatteryng lippes.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 55:20
    79%

    20He layde his handes vpon such as be at peace with him: and he brake his couenaunt.

  • Jer 9:8
    76%

    8Their tongues are like sharpe arrowes to speake deceipt: with their mouth they speake peaceablie to their neighbour, but priuilie they lay wayte for hym.

  • Ps 10:7
    74%

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

  • Ps 36:3
    73%

    3The wordes of his mouth are vnrighteous and full of deceipt: he hath left of to behaue him selfe wisely & to do good.

  • Ps 35:20
    73%

    20For they speake not peace: but they imagine deceiptfull wordes agaynst them that liue quietly in the lande.

  • Ps 52:2
    72%

    2Thy tongue imagineth wickednes: and deceaueth like a sharpe raser.

  • Prov 5:3
    72%

    3For the lippes of a straunge woman are a dropping hony combe, and her throte is more glistering then oyle:

  • Ps 64:3
    72%

    3Who haue whet their tongue lyke a sword: who haue drawne their arrow, euen a bitter worde.

  • Ps 120:7
    72%

    7I am a man of peace: but because I do speake therof, they prepare them selues to battayle.

  • Ps 140:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2Who in heart imagine mischiefes: and set forwarde to warre euery day.

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

  • Prov 26:22-24
    3 verses
    71%

    22A talebearers wordes are lyke men that strike with hammers, and they pearse the inwarde partes of the body.

    23Burning lippes and a wicked heart, are like a potsharde couered with siluer drosse.

    24An enemie wyll dissemble with his lippes, and layeth vp deceipt in his heart.

  • Job 20:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, he hyd it vnder his tongue.

    13That he fauoured, that would he not forsake, but kept it close in his throte.

  • Isa 10:7
    70%

    7Howbeit, his meaning is not so, neither thinketh his heart on this fashion: But he imagineth howe he may roote out and destroy muche people.

  • Ps 37:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14The vngodly haue drawen out the sworde, and haue bended their bowe: to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of right conuersation.

    15But their sworde shal go thorow their owne heart: & their bow shalbe broken.

  • Isa 49:2
    70%

    2He hath made my mouth lyke a sharpe sworde, vnder the shadowe of his hande hath he defended me, and hid me in his quiuer as a good arrowe,

  • Prov 6:14
    70%

    14He is euer imagining mischiefe and frowardnes in his heart, and causeth discorde.

  • Prov 27:6
    70%

    6Faythfull are the woundes of a louer: but the kysses of an enemie are cruell.

  • Ps 5:9
    70%

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

  • Ps 59:7
    70%

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

  • Ps 109:2
    70%

    2For the mouth of the vngodly and the mouth of the deceiptfull is opened vpon me: they haue spoken against me with a false tongue.

  • Job 20:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

    24He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bowe of steele shall strike him through.

    25The arowe is taken foorth and gone out of the quiuer, and a glistering sword through the gall of him: so feare shall come vpon him.

  • Prov 25:15
    70%

    15With pacience is a prince pacified, and with a softe tongue is rigorousnesse broken.

  • Ps 37:12
    70%

    12The vngodly busieth his head all against the iust: and gnasheth vpon him with his teeth.

  • Prov 24:2
    69%

    2For their heart imagineth to do hurt, and their lippes talke mischiefe.

  • Ezek 21:11
    69%

    11He hath geuen it to be furbished, to holde it in the hande: this sworde is sharpened, and furbished, to geue it into the hande of the slayer.

  • Prov 12:18
    69%

    18A slaunderous person pricketh lyke a sworde: but a wise mans tongue is wholsome.

  • Job 39:23
    69%

    23Though the quiuers rattle vpon him, though the speare and shielde glister:

  • Ps 28:3
    69%

    3Take me not away with the vngodlye, and with the workers of iniquitie: whiche speake of peace to their neighbours, but mischiefe is in their heartes.

  • Prov 15:1
    69%

    1A soft aunswere appeaseth wrath: but rough wordes stirre vp anger.

  • Job 41:21
    69%

    21His breath maketh the coles burne, and the flambe goeth out of his mouth.

  • Prov 12:20
    69%

    20Deceipt is in the heart of them that imagine euyll: but to the counsaylers of peace shalbe ioy.

  • Prov 26:26
    69%

    26Hatred maye be couered by deceipt: but the malice therof shalbe shewed before the whole congregation.

  • Ps 50:19
    69%

    19Thou hast let thy mouth speake wickednesse: and with thy tongue thou hast set foorth deceipt.

  • 2 Sam 22:35
    69%

    35He teacheth my handes to fight: that euen a bowe of steele is broken with myne armes.

  • Ps 52:4
    68%

    4Thou hast loued to speake all wordes that may do hurt: O thou deceiptfull tongue.

  • Ps 12:2
    68%

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

  • Ps 62:4
    68%

    4They deuise only howe to thrust him from his promotion: they delight in a lye, they blesse with their mouth, and curse with their heart. Selah.

  • Ps 55:22
    68%

    22O cast thy burthen vpon God, and he wyll vpholde thee: he wyll not suffer at any time the righteous to moue.

  • Ps 45:5
    68%

    5Thyne arrowes are sharpe: a people the kynges enemies shall submit in heart them selues vnto thee.

  • Prov 7:21
    68%

    21Thus with many sweete wordes she ouercame him, and with her flattering lippes she entised hym.

  • Ps 55:12
    68%

    12Truely he was not mine enemie that hath done me this dishonour, for then I coulde haue borne it: neither was he one that seemed to hate me that dyd magnifie hym selfe against me, for then I woulde haue hyd my selfe from him.

  • Prov 16:24
    68%

    24Fayre wordes are an hony combe, a refresshyng of the mynde, and health of the bones.

  • Ps 58:7
    68%

    7Let them be dissolued as into water, let them come to naught of them selues: and when they shoote their arrowes, let them be as broken.

  • Prov 25:18
    68%

    18Whoso beareth false witnesse against his neighbour, he is a very club, a sworde, and a sharpe arrowe.