Proverbs 12:19

Geneva Bible (1560)

The lip of trueth shall be stable for euer: but a lying tongue varieth incontinently.

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  • Prov 19:9 : 9 A false witnes shall not be vnpunished: and he that speaketh lyes, shall perish.
  • Zech 1:4-6 : 4 Be ye not as your fathers, vnto whome the former prophets haue cried, saying, Thus sayth the Lord of hostes, Turne you nowe from your euill wayes, and from your wicked workes: but they would not heare, nor hearken vnto me, saith the Lorde. 5 your fathers, where are they? and doe the Prophets liue for euer? 6 But did not my wordes and my statutes, which I commanded by my seruants ye Prophets, take holde of your fathers? and they returned, and sayd, As the Lord of hostes hath determined to doe vnto vs, according to our owne wayes, and according to our workes, so hath hee dealt with vs.
  • Matt 24:35 : 35 Heauen and earth shall passe away: but my wordes shall not passe away.
  • Acts 5:3-9 : 3 Then saide Peter, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart, that thou shouldest lye vnto the holy Ghost, and keepe away part of the price of this possession? 4 Whiles it remained, appertained it not vnto thee? and after it was solde, was it not in thine owne power? howe is it that thou hast conceiued this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lyed vnto men, but vnto God. 5 Now when Ananias heard these wordes, he fell downe, and gaue vp the ghost. Then great feare came on all them that heard these things. 6 And the yong men rose vp, and tooke him vp, and caried him out, and buried him. 7 And it came to passe about the space of three houres after, that his wife came in, ignorant of that which was done. 8 And Peter sayd vnto her, Tell me, solde ye the land for so much? And she sayd, Yea, for so much. 9 Then Peter sayde vnto her, Why haue ye agreed together, to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? beholde, the feete of them which haue buried thine husband, are at the doore, and shall carie thee out. 10 Then she fell downe straightway at his feete, and yeelded vp the ghost: and the yong men came in, and found her dead, and caried her out, and buried her by her husband.
  • Job 20:5 : 5 That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?
  • Ps 52:4-5 : 4 Thou louest all wordes that may destroye, O deceitfull tongue! 5 So shal God destroy thee for euer: he shal take thee and plucke thee out of thy tabernacle, and roote thee out of ye land of the liuing. Selah.

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

  • Prov 12:17-18
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    17 He that speaketh trueth, will shewe righteousnes: but a false witnes vseth deceite.

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    7 For my mouth shall speake the trueth, and my lippes abhorre wickednesse.

  • Ps 12:2-3
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    2 They speake deceitfully euery one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips, and speake with a double heart.

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  • Prov 26:28
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    28 A false tongue hateth the afflicted, and a flattering mouth causeth ruine.

  • Prov 19:9
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  • Prov 10:31-32
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    31 The mouth of the iust shall be fruitfull in wisdome: but the tongue of the froward shall be cut out.

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  • Ps 31:18
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    18 Let the lying lips be made dumme, which cruelly, proudly and spitefully speake against the righteous.

  • Prov 12:20
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    20 Deceite is in the heart of them that imagine euill: but to the counsellers of peace shall be ioye.

  • Ps 34:13
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    13 Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lips, that they speake no guile.

  • Prov 21:6
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    6 The gathering of treasures by a deceitfull tongue is vanitie tossed to and fro of them that seeke death.

  • Prov 17:4
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    4 The wicked giueth heed to false lippes, and a lyer hearkeneth to the naughtie tongue.

  • Ps 120:2-3
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    2 Deliuer my soule, O Lord, from lying lippes, and from a deceitfull tongue.

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  • Prov 15:4
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    4 A wholesome tongue is as a tree of life: but the frowardnes therof is the breaking of ye minde.

  • Job 27:4
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    4 My lips surely shall speake no wickednesse, and my tongue shall vtter no deceite.

  • Prov 14:5
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    5 A faithfull witnes will not lye: but a false record will speake lyes.

  • 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.

  • Ps 63:11
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    11 But the King shall reioyce in God, and all that sweare by him shall reioyce in him: for the mouth of them that speake lyes, shall be stopped.

  • Prov 19:5
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    5 A false witnes shall not be vnpunished: and he that speaketh lyes, shall not escape.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19 Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.

  • Jer 9:5
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    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.

  • Prov 4:24
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    24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee.

  • 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.

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

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

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    18 For it shalbe pleasant, if thou keepe them in thy bellie, and if they be directed together in thy lippes.

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    18 He that dissembleth hatred with lying lips, and he that inuenteth slaunder, is a foole.

    19 In many wordes there cannot want iniquitie: but he that refrayneth his lippes, is wise.

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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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    25 A faithfull witnes deliuereth soules: but a deceiuer speaketh lyes.

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    10 A diuine sentence shalbe in the lips of the King: his mouth shall not trasgresse in iudgement.

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    5 A righteous man hateth lying wordes: but the wicked causeth slander and shame.

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    4 Thou louest all wordes that may destroye, O deceitfull tongue!

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    10 For if any man long after life, and to see good dayes, let him refraine his tongue from euill, and his lippes that they speake no guile.

  • Prov 21:28
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    28 A false witnes shall perish: but hee that heareth, speaketh continually.

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    2 The tongue of the wise vseth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fooles babbleth out foolishnesse.

  • 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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    13 Righteous lips are the delite of Kings, and the King loueth him that speaketh right things.

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    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.

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    2 He that walketh vprightly and worketh righteousnes, and speaketh the trueth in his heart.

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    6 The talking of the wicked is to lye in waite for blood: but the mouth of the righteous will deliuer them.

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    13 The euill man is snared by the wickednesse of his lips, but the iust shall come out of aduersitie.