Psalms 52:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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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  • Ps 52:3-5
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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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    82%

    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
    78%

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

  • Ps 52:1
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    1¶ To the chief Musician, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. Why 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.

  • Ps 120:3
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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
    76%

    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.

  • Ps 64:3
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    3Who whet their tongue like a sword, [and] bend [their bows to shoot] their arrows, [even] bitter words:

  • Prov 24:2
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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
    2 verses
    74%

    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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    28¶ A 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:

  • Ps 109:2
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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.

  • Prov 6:14
    73%

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

  • Prov 12:18
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    18¶ There 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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    4¶ A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; [and] a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

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

  • Rom 3:13
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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:

  • Prov 17:20
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    20¶ He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

  • Ps 55:21
    72%

    21[The 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.

  • Prov 16:30
    72%

    30He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

  • Ps 59:12
    72%

    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.

  • Prov 24:8
    72%

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

  • Prov 10:31
    72%

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

  • Ps 38:12
    72%

    12¶ They 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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    72%

    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.

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

  • Ps 37:12
    72%

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

  • Ps 5:6
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    6Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

  • Job 20:12
    72%

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

  • Isa 57:4
    72%

    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,

  • Ps 144:8
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    8Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood.

  • Prov 6:18
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    18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

  • Mic 6:12
    71%

    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].

  • Prov 25:18
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    18¶ A 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
    71%

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