Psalms 52:2

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

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  • Prov 18:21 : 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
  • Ps 50:19 : 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
  • Ps 64:2-6 : 2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity: 3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words: 4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. 5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? 6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
  • Ps 109:2 : 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.
  • Ps 120:2 : 2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
  • Ps 140:2-3 : 2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war. 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
  • Prov 6:16-19 : 16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
  • Jer 9:3-4 : 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.
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
  • Matt 26:59 : 59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
  • Acts 6:11-13 : 11 Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. 12 And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council, 13 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
  • Acts 24:1 : 1 And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.
  • Acts 24:5 : 5 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
  • 2 Cor 11:13 : 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
  • Rev 12:10 : 10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

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    3Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

    4Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

    5God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

  • Ps 50:19-20
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    19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

    20Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

  • Ps 52:1
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    1Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

  • Job 15:5
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    5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

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    3What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?

  • Ps 140:2-3
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    2Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.

    3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8Their 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.

  • Ps 34:13
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    13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

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    3Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

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

  • Ps 5:9
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    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

  • Ps 36:3-4
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    3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

    4He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

  • Prov 26:28
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    28A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

  • Jer 9:5
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    5And 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.

  • Ps 12:2-3
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    2They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

    3The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

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

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    14Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

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    18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

  • Isa 32:7
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    7The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

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

  • Prov 17:4
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    4A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

  • Prov 12:20
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    20Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.

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

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    20He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

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    21The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

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    12For 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.

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    8He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.

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    12They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

  • Ps 62:3-4
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    3How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.

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    12The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

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

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    4Against 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,

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

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    18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

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

  • Ps 21:11
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    11For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

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    18A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

  • Jer 9:3
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    3And 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.

  • Ps 58:2
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    2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.