Psalms 5:9

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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.

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  • Rom 3:13 : 13 Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:
  • Ps 62:4 : 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.
  • Ps 51:6 : 6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden [part] thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
  • Luke 11:44 : 44 ‹Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over› [them] ‹are not aware› [of them].
  • 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.
  • Jer 9:3-6 : 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. 5 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. 6 Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
  • Ps 58:2-3 : 2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
  • Job 32:21-22 : 21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man. 22 For I know not to give flattering titles; [in so doing] my maker would soon take me away.
  • Ps 12:2-3 : 2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak. 3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, [and] the tongue that speaketh proud things:
  • Ps 36:1-4 : 1 ¶ To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David the servant of the LORD. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, [that there is] no fear of God before his eyes. 2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. 3 The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, [and] to do good. 4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way [that is] not good; he abhorreth not evil.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree [are] vanity, [and] men of high degree [are] a lie: to be laid in the balance, they [are] altogether [lighter] than vanity.
  • Ps 64:6 : 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 111:1-3 : 1 ¶ Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with [my] whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and [in] the congregation. 2 The works of the LORD [are] great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein. 3 His work [is] honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
  • Prov 29:5 : 5 ¶ A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?
  • Mark 7:21-22 : 21 ‹For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,› 22 ‹Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:›
  • Luke 11:39 : 39 And the Lord said unto him, ‹Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.›
  • Rom 1:29-31 : 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God [is] witness:

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  • Rom 3:13-15
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    13 Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:

    14 Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness:

    15 Their feet [are] swift to shed blood:

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

  • Jer 9:3-6
    4 verses
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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.

    5 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.

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

  • Ps 12:2-3
    2 verses
    79%

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

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

  • 10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Ps 73:8-9
    2 verses
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    8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly [concerning] oppression: they speak loftily.

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

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

  • 28 ¶ A lying tongue hateth [those that are] afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

  • 7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in their lips: for who, [say they], doth hear?

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness [is] an abomination to my lips.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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,

  • 9 [As for] the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

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    24 ¶ He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;

    25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for [there are] seven abominations in his heart.

    26 [Whose] hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the [whole] congregation.

  • 10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

  • 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.

  • 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;

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

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

  • 31 ¶ The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

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

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

  • 3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief [is] in their hearts.

  • 4 Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;