Jeremiah 9:5

Geneva Bible (1560)

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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  • Job 15:5 : 5 For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty.
  • Mic 6:12 : 12 For the rich men thereof are full of crueltie, & the inhabitants thereof haue spoken lyes, and their tongue is deceitfull in their mouth.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Beholde, is it not of the Lorde of hostes that the people shal labour in ye very fire? the people shall euen weary themselues for very vanitie.
  • Eph 4:25 : 25 Wherefore cast off lying, and speake euery man truth vnto his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
  • 1 Tim 4:2 : 2 Which speake lies through hypocrisie, & haue their cosciences burned with an hote yron,
  • Gen 19:11 : 11 Then they smote the men that were at the doore of the house with blindnes both small and great, so that they were wearie in seeking the doore.
  • Job 11:3 : 3 Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? & when thou mockest others, shall none make thee ashamed?
  • Ps 7:14 : 14 Beholde, hee shall trauaile with wickednes: for he hath conceiued mischiefe, but he shall bring foorth a lye.
  • Ps 50:19 : 19 Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.
  • Ps 64:3 : 3 Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes.
  • Ps 140:3 : 3 They haue sharpened their tongues like a serpent: adders poyson is vnder their lips. Selah.
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall.
  • Isa 5:18 : 18 Woe vnto them, that draw iniquitie with cordes of vanitie, and sinne, as with cart ropes:
  • Isa 41:6-7 : 6 Euery man helped his neighbour, and saide to his brother, Be strong. 7 So the workeman comforted the founder, and he that smote with ye hammer, him that smote by course, saying, It is ready for the sodering, and he fastened it with nayles that it shoulde not be mooued.
  • Isa 44:12-14 : 12 The smith taketh an instrument, and worketh in the coles, and facioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his armes: yea, he is an hungred, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint. 13 The carpenter stretcheth out a line: he facioneth it with a red thread, he planeth it, and he purtreyeth it with the compasse, and maketh it after the figure of a man, and according to the beautie of a man that it may remaine in an house. 14 He will hewe him downe cedars, and take the pine tree and the oke, and taketh courage among the trees of the forest: he planteth a firre tree, and the raine doeth nourish it.
  • Isa 57:10 : 10 Thou weariedst thy selfe in thy manifolde iourneys, yet saydest thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found life by thine hand, therefore thou wast not grieued.
  • 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.
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 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.
  • 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.
  • Ezek 24:12 : 12 She hath wearied her selfe with lyes, and her great skomme went not out of her: therefore her skomme shall be consumed with fire.
  • Mic 6:3 : 3 O my people, what haue I done vnto thee? or wherin haue I grieued thee? testifie against me.

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  • Jer 9:3-4
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    3And 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.

    4Let 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,

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

  • 8Their 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.

  • 2They speake deceitfully euery one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips, and speake with a double heart.

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

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

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

    4No man calleth for iustice: no man contendeth for trueth: they trust in vanitie, & speake vaine things: they conceiue mischiefe, and bring foorth iniquitie.

  • 13For 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.

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

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

  • 19Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.

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

  • 35For they conceiue mischiefe and bring foorth vanitie, and their bellie hath prepared deceite.

  • 13In 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.

  • 2Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.

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    6Thou shalt destroy them that speake lyes: the Lorde will abhorre the bloodie man and deceitfull.

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

  • 19So dealeth the deceitfull man with his friend and sayth, Am not I in sport?

  • 17And 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.

  • 20Deceite is in the heart of them that imagine euill: but to the counsellers of peace shall be ioye.

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

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

  • Jer 5:11-12
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    11For the house of Israel, and the house of Iudah haue grieuously trespassed against me, saith the Lord.

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

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

  • 3The wordes of his mouth are iniquitie and deceit: hee hath left off to vnderstand and to doe good.

  • 22The lying lips are an abomination to the Lord: but they that deale truely are his delite.

  • 11Wickednes is in the middes thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streetes.

  • 9The triall of their countenance testifieth against them, yea, they declare their sinnes as Sodom, they hide them not. Wo be vnto their soules: for they haue rewarded euil vnto themselues.

  • 10Therefore will I giue their wiues vnto others, and their fieldes to them that shall possesse them: for euery one from the least euen vnto the greatest is giuen to couetousnesse, and from the Prophet euen vnto the Priest, euery one dealeth falsely.

  • 2For their heart imagineth destruction, and their lippes speake mischiefe.

  • 12For 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.

  • 9They set their mouth against heauen, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

  • 4On whome haue ye iested? vpon whome haue ye gaped and thrust out your tongue? are not ye rebellious children, and a false seede?

  • 5They encourage themselues in a wicked purpose: they commune together to lay snares priuilie, and say, Who shall see them?

  • 36But they flattered him with their mouth, and dissembled with him with their tongue.

  • 7All the men of thy confederacie haue driuen thee to ye borders: the men that were at peace with thee, haue deceiued thee, and preuailed against thee: they that eate thy bread, haue laid a wound vnder thee: there is none vnderstanding in him.

  • 2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and whoring they breake out, and blood toucheth blood.

  • 4The wicked giueth heed to false lippes, and a lyer hearkeneth to the naughtie tongue.

  • 7There shal no deceitful person dwell within mine house: he that telleth lyes, shall not remaine in my sight.

  • 4Yet they consult to cast him downe from his dignitie: their delight is in lies, they blesse with their mouthes, but curse with their hearts. Selah.

  • 19A false witnesse that speaketh lyes, and him that rayseth vp contentions among brethren.

  • 26For among my people are founde wicked persons, that lay waite as hee that setteth snares: they haue made a pit, to catch men.

  • 5For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty.

  • 5A man that flattereth his neighbour, spreadeth a net for his steps.

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

  • 6For euen thy brethren, and the house of thy father, euen they haue delt vnfaithfully with thee, and they haue cryed out altogether vpon thee: but beleeue them not, though they speake faire to thee.

  • 5A false witnes shall not be vnpunished: and he that speaketh lyes, shall not escape.