Jeremiah 9:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

And they will deceive every one his neighbor, 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 your mouth declares your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
  • Mic 6:12 : 12 For the rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants 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 labor in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for mere vanity?
  • Eph 4:25 : 25 Therefore, putting away lying, let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.
  • 1 Tim 4:2 : 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
  • Gen 19:11 : 11 And they struck the men at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they tired themselves trying to find the door.
  • Job 11:3 : 3 Should your lies silence men? And when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?
  • Ps 7:14 : 14 Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
  • Ps 50:19 : 19 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
  • Ps 64:3 : 3 Who sharpen 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 do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
  • Isa 5:18 : 18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as if with a cart rope:
  • Isa 41:6-7 : 6 They helped everyone his neighbor; and everyone said to his brother, Be of good courage. 7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smooths with the hammer him that struck the anvil, saying, It is ready for the soldering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
  • Isa 44:12-14 : 12 The smith with the tongs both works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with the strength of his arms: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails: he drinks no water, and is faint. 13 The carpenter stretches out his rule; he marks it out with a line; he fits it with planes, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house. 14 He cuts down cedars, and takes the cypress and the oak, which he strengthens for himself among the trees of the forest: he plants an ash, and the rain nourishes it.
  • Isa 57:10 : 10 You are wearied by the length of your way; yet you did not say, There is no hope: you have found the life of your hand; therefore you were not grieved.
  • Isa 59:13-15 : 13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 And judgment is turned backward, and justice stands far off: for truth has fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. 15 Yes, truth fails; and he who departs from evil makes 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 a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.
  • Jer 9:8 : 8 Their tongue is like an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait.
  • Ezek 24:12 : 12 She has wearied herself with lies, and her great scum did not go out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
  • Mic 6:3 : 3 O my people, what have I done to you? And how have I wearied you? Testify against Me.

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    3And they bend their tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.

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

  • Jer 9:6
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    6Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8Their tongue is like an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait.

  • Ps 12:2
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    2They speak vanity everyone with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

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

  • Mic 6:12
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    12For the rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

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

    4No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

  • Jer 6:13
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    13For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

  • 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 35:20
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    20For they speak not peace; but they devise deceitful matters against those who are quiet in the land.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

  • Rom 3:13
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    13'Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of vipers is under their lips.'

  • Job 15:35
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    35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.

  • Isa 59:13
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    13In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

  • Ps 52:2
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    2Your tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

  • Ps 5:6
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    6You shall destroy those who speak falsehood; the LORD will abhor the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

  • Jer 7:8
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    8Behold, you trust in deceptive words that cannot profit.

  • Prov 26:19
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    19So is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, Am I not joking?

  • Zech 8:17
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    17And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, says the LORD.

  • Prov 12:20
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    20Deceit is in the heart of those who imagine evil, but to the counselors of peace there is joy.

  • Hos 7:3
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    3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

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

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

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

  • Jer 5:2
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    2And though they say, The LORD lives; surely they swear falsely.

  • Ps 36:3
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    3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.

  • Prov 12:22
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    22Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who deal truthfully are His delight.

  • Ps 55:11
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    11Wickedness is in the midst of it; deceit and guile do not depart from its streets.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9The look on their faces testifies against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • Jer 8:10
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    10Therefore, I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall inherit them: for everyone from the least to the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2For their hearts plot destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

  • Ps 59:12
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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 the cursing and lying which they speak.

  • Ps 73:9
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    9They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.

  • Isa 57:4
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    4Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

  • Ps 64:5
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    5They encourage themselves in an evil matter; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?

  • Ps 78:36
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    36Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

  • Obad 1:7
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    7All the men of your confederacy have driven you to the border; the men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you; those who eat your bread have laid a trap under you. There is no understanding in him.

  • Hos 4:2
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    2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

  • Prov 17:4
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    4A wicked doer listens to false lips, and a liar gives ear to a deceitful tongue.

  • Ps 101:7
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    7He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house: he who tells lies shall not remain in my presence.

  • Ps 62:4
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    4They only plan to cast him down from his high position; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

  • Prov 6:19
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    19A false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.

  • Jer 5:26
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    26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay in wait, as he who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

  • Job 15:5
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    5For your mouth declares your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

  • Prov 29:5
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    5A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

  • 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.

  • Jer 12:6
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    6For even your brothers, the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; yes, they have called a multitude after you. Do not believe them, even though they speak kind words to you.

  • Prov 19:5
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    5A false witness shall not go unpunished, and he who speaks lies shall not escape.