Proverbs 6:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

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  • Prov 12:22 : 22 Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who deal truthfully are His delight.
  • Ps 101:5 : 5 Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that has a haughty look and a proud heart I will not endure.
  • Isa 1:15 : 15 And when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: indeed, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Ps 120:2-3 : 2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue. 3 What shall be given to you? Or what shall be done to you, you false tongue?
  • Ps 18:27 : 27 For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks.
  • Deut 19:10 : 10 That innocent blood may not be shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and thus blood guilt be upon you.
  • Ps 5:6 : 6 You shall destroy those who speak falsehood; the LORD will abhor the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
  • Isa 2:11 : 11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
  • Isa 3:9 : 9 The 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.
  • Isa 3:16 : 16 Moreover the LORD says, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, making a tinkling with their feet:
  • Prov 14:5 : 5 A faithful witness will not lie, but a false witness will utter lies.
  • Prov 21:4 : 4 A proud look, a haughty heart, and the plowing of the wicked are sin.
  • Prov 26:28 : 28 A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
  • Prov 30:13 : 13 There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes, and their eyelids are lifted up.
  • Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
  • Prov 17:7 : 7 Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool, much less lying lips for a prince.
  • Isa 59:3-7 : 3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness. 4 No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch viper’s eggs and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies, and what is crushed breaks out into a viper. 6 Their webs will not become garments, nor will they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. 7 Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.
  • Hos 4:1-2 : 1 Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel, for the LORD has a dispute with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
  • John 8:44 : 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise, you younger ones, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of you be subject to one another, and be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.
  • Rev 22:15 : 15 For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and sexually immoral, and murderers, and idolaters, and whoever loves and makes a lie.
  • Ps 10:4 : 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God; God is not in all his thoughts.
  • Deut 27:25 : 25 Cursed be he who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • 2 Kgs 24:4 : 4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not pardon.
  • Ps 31:18 : 18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
  • Ps 73:6-8 : 6 Therefore pride surrounds them as a chain; violence covers them as a garment. 7 Their eyes bulge with abundance; they have more than heart could wish. 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly of oppression; they speak loftily.
  • Ps 131:1 : 1 Lord, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes arrogant: neither do I concern myself with great matters, or with things too high for me.

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  • 16 These six things the LORD hates: yes, seven are an abomination to him:

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    18 A heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

    19 A false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.

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

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

  • 4 A proud look, a haughty heart, and the plowing of the wicked are sin.

  • 15 'Their feet are swift to shed blood:'

  • 17 But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.

  • 16 For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

  • 5 Everyone that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though they join hand in hand, they shall not go unpunished.

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    21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

    22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

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  • 6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright will deliver them.

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

    8 He sits in the lurking places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent; his eyes are secretly set against the poor.

  • 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

  • 13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.

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

  • 5 A righteous man hates lying, but a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

  • 18 He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who utters slander, is a fool.

  • 14 Perversity is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.

  • 26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD, but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

  • 3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the greedy, whom the LORD abhors.

  • 17 And 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.

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    1 The transgression of the wicked speaks within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

    2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity is found to be hateful.

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

  • 30 He shuts his eyes to devise perverse things; moving his lips, he brings evil to pass.

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

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    11 Shall I count them pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

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

  • 2 Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

  • 18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

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    24 He who hates others disguises it with his lips, and stores up deceit within him;

    25 When he speaks kindly, do not believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.

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

  • 15 He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from holding bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;

  • 10 The bloodthirsty hate the upright; but the just seek his life.

  • 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with an evil intent?

  • 11 If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

  • 5 Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that has a haughty look and a proud heart I will not endure.

  • 7 For my mouth will speak truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

  • 8 Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, and it is polluted with blood.

  • 10 That innocent blood may not be shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and thus blood guilt be upon you.

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

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