Jeremiah 9:5

King James Version 1611 (Original)

And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

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  • Job 15:5 : 5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
  • Mic 6:12 : 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
  • Eph 4:25 : 25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
  • 1 Tim 4:2 : 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
  • Gen 19:11 : 11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
  • Job 11:3 : 3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
  • Ps 7:14 : 14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
  • Ps 50:19 : 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
  • Ps 64:3 : 3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
  • Ps 140:3 : 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
  • Isa 5:18 : 18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
  • Isa 41:6-7 : 6 They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage. 7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
  • Isa 44:12-14 : 12 The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint. 13 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house. 14 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
  • Isa 57:10 : 10 Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.
  • Isa 59:13-15 : 13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. 15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
  • Jer 9:8 : 8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
  • Ezek 24:12 : 12 She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
  • Mic 6:3 : 3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.

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  • Jer 9:3-4
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    3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

    4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

  • 6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

  • 8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

  • 2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

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    9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

  • 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

  • Isa 59:3-4
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    3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

    4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

  • 13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

  • 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

  • 20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

  • 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

  • 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

  • 35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

  • 13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

  • 2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

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    6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

  • 8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

  • 19 So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?

  • 17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.

  • 20 Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.

  • 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

  • 8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • Jer 5:11-12
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    11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.

    12 They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

  • 2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.

  • 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

  • 22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

  • 11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

  • 9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • 10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

  • 2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

  • 12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

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

  • 4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

  • 5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

  • 36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

  • 7 All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.

  • 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

  • 4 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

  • 7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

  • 4 They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

  • 19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

  • 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

  • 5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

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

  • 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

  • 6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.

  • 5 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.