Jeremiah 9:3

Geneva Bible (1560)

And they bende their tongues like their bowes for lyes: but they haue no courage for the trueth vpon the earth: for they proceede from euill to worse, and they haue not knowen mee, sayth the Lord.

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  • Jer 9:8 : 8 Their tongue is as an arow shot out, and speaketh deceite: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart hee layeth waite for him.
  • Judg 2:10 : 10 And so all that generation was gathered vnto their fathers, & another generation arose after them, which neither knewe the Lord, nor yet the works, which he had done for Israel.
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people is foolish, they haue not knowen me: they are foolish children, and haue none vnderstanding: they are wise to doe euill, but to doe well they haue no knowledge.
  • Isa 59:13-15 : 13 In trespassing and lying against the Lorde, and wee haue departed away from our God, and haue spoken of crueltie and rebellion, conceiuing and vttering out of the heart false matters. 14 Therefore iudgement is turned backewarde, and iustice standeth farre off: for trueth is fallen in the streete, and equitie cannot enter. 15 Yea, trueth faileth, and hee that refraineth from euill, maketh himselfe a praye: and when the Lorde sawe it, it displeased him, that there was no iudgement.
  • 1 Sam 2:12 : 12 Now the sonnes of Eli were wicked men, and knewe not the Lord.
  • Rom 3:13 : 13 Their throte is an open sepulchre: they haue vsed their tongues to deceit: the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes.
  • 2 Cor 4:4-6 : 4 In whom the God of this world hath blinded the mindes, that is, of the infidels, that the light of the glorious Gospell of Christ, which is the image of God, should not shine vnto them. 5 For we preach not our selues, but Christ Iesus the Lorde, and our selues your seruaunts for Iesus sake. 6 For God that commanded the light to shine out of darknesse, is he which hath shined in our hearts, to giue the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Iesus Christ.
  • Phil 1:28 : 28 And in nothing feare your aduersaries, which is to them a token of perdition, and to you of saluation, and that of God.
  • 2 Tim 3:13 : 13 But the euill men and deceiuers, shall waxe worse and worse, deceiuing, and being deceiued.
  • Jude 1:3 : 3 Beloued, when I gaue al diligece to write vnto you of the common saluatio, it was needful for me to write vnto you to exhort you, that yee should earnestly contend for the maintenace of ye faith, which was once giuen vnto the Saintes.
  • Rev 12:11 : 11 But they ouercame him by that blood of that Lambe, and by that worde of their testimonie, and they loued not their liues vnto the death.
  • Ps 52:2-4 : 2 Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully. 3 Thou doest loue euill more then good, and lies more then to speake the trueth. Selah. 4 Thou louest all wordes that may destroye, O deceitfull tongue!
  • Ps 64:3-4 : 3 Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes. 4 To shoote at the vpright in secrete: they shoote at him suddenly, and feare not.
  • Ps 120:2-4 : 2 Deliuer my soule, O Lord, from lying lippes, and from a deceitfull tongue. 3 What doeth thy deceitfull tongue bring vnto thee? or what doeth it auaile thee? 4 It is as the sharpe arrowes of a mightie man, and as the coales of iuniper.
  • Isa 59:3-5 : 3 For your handes are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquitie: your lips haue spoken lies & your tongue hath murmured iniquitie. 4 No man calleth for iustice: no man contendeth for trueth: they trust in vanitie, & speake vaine things: they conceiue mischiefe, and bring foorth iniquitie. 5 They hatch cockatrice egges, and weaue the spiders webbe: he that eateth of their egges, dieth, and that which is trode vpon, breaketh out into a serpent.
  • Jer 22:16 : 16 When he iudged the cause of the afflicted and the poore, he prospered: was not this because he knewe me, saith the Lorde?
  • Jer 31:34 : 34 And they shall teach no more euery man his neighbour and euery man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me from the least of them vnto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I wil forgiue their iniquitie, and will remember their sinnes no more.
  • Hos 4:1-3 : 1 Heare the worde of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controuersie with the inhabitants of the lande, because there is no trueth nor mercie nor knowledge of God in the lande. 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and whoring they breake out, and blood toucheth blood. 3 Therefore shall the land mourne, and euery one that dwelleth therein, shall be cut off, with the beasts of the fielde, and with the foules of the heauen, and also the fishes of the sea shall be taken away.
  • Mic 7:3-5 : 3 To make good for the euil of their hands, the prince asked, and the iudge iudgeth for a reward: therefore the great man he speaketh out the corruption of his soule: so they wrapt it vp. 4 The best of them is as a brier, and the most righteous of them is sharper then a thorne hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation commeth: then shalbe their confusion. 5 Trust ye not in a friend, neither put ye confidence in a counseller: keepe the doores of thy mouth from her that lyeth in thy bosome.
  • Matt 10:31-33 : 31 Feare ye not therefore, yee are of more value then many sparowes. 32 Whosoeuer therefore shall confesse me before men, him will I confesse also before my Father which is in heauen. 33 But whosoeuer shall denie me before me, him will I also denie before my Father which is in heauen.
  • Mark 8:38 : 38 For whosoeuer shall be ashamed of mee, and of my wordes among this adulterous and sinfull generation, of him shall the Sonne of man be ashamed also, when he commeth in the glorie of his Father with the holy Angels.
  • John 8:54-55 : 54 Iesus answered, If I honour my selfe, mine honour is nothing worth: it is my Father that honoureth me, whome ye say, that hee is your God. 55 Yet ye haue not knowen him: but I knowe him, and if I should say I know him not, I should be a liar like vnto you: but I knowe him, and keepe his worde.
  • John 17:3 : 3 And this is life eternall, that they knowe thee to be the onely very God, and whom thou hast sent, Iesus Christ.
  • Rom 1:16 : 16 For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God vnto saluation to euery one that beleeueth, to the Iewe first, and also to the Grecian.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 For as they regarded not to acknowledge God, euen so God deliuered them vp vnto a reprobate minde, to doe those things which are not conuenient,
  • Jer 7:26 : 26 Yet would they not heare me nor encline their eare, but hardened their necke & did worse then their fathers.
  • Jer 9:5 : 5 And euery one wil deceiue his friende, and wil not speake the trueth: for they haue taught their tongues to speake lies, and take great paynes to do wickedly.

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    4 Let euery one take heede of his neighbour, and trust you not in any brother: for euery brother will vse deceite, and euery friend will deale deceitfully,

    5 And euery one wil deceiue his friende, and wil not speake the trueth: for they haue taught their tongues to speake lies, and take great paynes to do wickedly.

    6 Thine habitation is in the middes of deceiuers: because of their deceit they refuse to know me, sayth the Lord.

  • Jer 9:8-9
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    8 Their tongue is as an arow shot out, and speaketh deceite: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart hee layeth waite for him.

    9 Shal I not visit them for these things, saith the Lorde? Or shall not my soule be auenged on such a nation as this?

  • Ps 5:9
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    9 For no constancie is in their mouth: within, they are very corruption: their throte is an open sepulchre, and they flatter with their tongue.

  • Isa 59:13
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    13 In trespassing and lying against the Lorde, and wee haue departed away from our God, and haue spoken of crueltie and rebellion, conceiuing and vttering out of the heart false matters.

  • Isa 59:3-4
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    3 For your handes are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquitie: your lips haue spoken lies & your tongue hath murmured iniquitie.

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  • Ps 73:8-9
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    8 They are licentious, and speake wickedly of their oppression: they talke presumptuously.

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  • Mic 6:12
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    12 For the rich men thereof are full of crueltie, & the inhabitants thereof haue spoken lyes, and their tongue is deceitfull in their mouth.

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    3 They make the King glad with their wickednesse, and the princes with their lies.

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    12 For the sinne of their mouth, and the words of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride, euen for their periurie and lies, that they speake.

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    11 For the house of Israel, and the house of Iudah haue grieuously trespassed against me, saith the Lord.

    12 They haue denied the Lorde, and saide, It is not he, neither shall the plague come vpon vs, neither shall we see sworde nor famine.

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    8 Doubtlesse Ierusalem is fallen, and Iudah is fallen downe, because their tongue & workes are against the Lord, to prouoke the eyes of his glory.

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    7 Behold, they brag in their talke, & swords are in their lips: for, Who, say they, doeth heare?

  • Ps 64:3
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    3 Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes.

  • Hos 7:16
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    16 They returne, but not to the most high: they are like a deceitfull bowe: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongues: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

  • Ps 35:20
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    20 For they speake not as friendes: but they imagine deceitfull woordes against the quiet of the lande.

  • Jer 7:8
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    8 Beholde, you trust in lying woordes, that can not profite.

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    13 Wo vnto them: for they haue fled away from me: destruction shalbe vnto them, because they haue transgressed against me: though I haue redeemed them, yet they haue spoken lyes against me.

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    13 Their throte is an open sepulchre: they haue vsed their tongues to deceit: the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes.

  • Ps 11:2
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    2 For loe, the wicked bende their bowe, and make readie their arrowes vpon the string, that they may secretly shoote at them, which are vpright in heart.

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    7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.

  • Jer 5:2
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    2 For though they say, The Lord liueth, yet doe they sweare falsely.

  • Ps 109:2
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    2 For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth full of deceite are opened vpon me: they haue spoken to me with a lying tongue.

  • Hos 10:4
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    4 They haue spoken woordes, swearing falsly in making a couenant: thus iudgement groweth as wormewoode in the furrowes of the fielde.

  • Hos 5:4
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    4 They will not giue their mindes to turne vnto their God: for the spirit of fornication is in the middes of them, and they haue not knowen the Lord.

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    3 They haue sharpened their tongues like a serpent: adders poyson is vnder their lips. Selah.

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    9 That it is a rebellious people, lying children, and children that would not heare the law of the Lord.

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    8 The way of peace they knowe not, & there is none equitie in their goings: they haue made them crooked paths: whosoeuer goeth therein, shall not knowe peace.

  • Zech 8:17
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    17 And let none of you imagine euill in your hearts against his neighbour, and loue no false othe: for all these are the things that I hate, saith the Lorde.

  • Jer 29:23
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    23 Because they haue committed vilenie in Israel, and haue committed adulterie with their neighbours wiues, and haue spoken lying words in my Name, which I haue not commaunded them, euen I knowe it, and testifie it, saith the Lorde.

  • Ezek 13:6
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    6 They haue seene vanitie, and lying diuination, saying, The Lord sayth it, and the Lorde hath not sent them: & they haue made others to hope that they would cofirme the word of their prophecie.

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    8 Whose mouth talketh vanitie, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

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    14 The wicked haue drawen their sworde, and haue bent their bowe, to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of vpright conuersation.

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    28 They are all rebellious traitours, walking craftily: they are brasse, and yron, they all are destroyers.

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    13 For from the least of them, euen vnto the greatest of them, euery one is giuen vnto couetousnesse, and from the Prophet euen vnto the Priest, they all deale falsely.