Psalms 12:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Ps 41:6 : 6 And if he comes to see me, he speaks vain things; his heart gathers iniquity to itself; when he goes out, he tells it.
  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For such persons do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own appetites; and by smooth talk and flattering words deceive the hearts of the innocent.
  • Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
  • 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.
  • Ps 5:9 : 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.
  • Ps 144:8 : 8 Whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
  • Ps 28:3 : 3 Do not draw me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
  • Jas 1:8 : 8 A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.
  • 1 Chr 12:33 : 33 Of Zebulun, those who went out to battle, skilled in war with all kinds of weapons, fifty thousand who could keep ranks; they were not of double heart.
  • Ezek 12:24 : 24 For there shall be no more any empty vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
  • Ps 144:11 : 11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of foreign children, whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
  • Prov 20:19 : 19 He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets; therefore, do not associate with one who flatters with his lips.
  • Prov 29:5 : 5 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
  • Jer 9:2-6 : 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for travelers; that I might leave my people and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 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. 4 Take 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. 5 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. 6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
  • Ps 36:3-4 : 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good. 4 He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not abhor evil.
  • Ps 38:12 : 12 Those who seek my life lay snares for me, and those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things and imagine deceits all day long.
  • Ps 52:1-4 : 1 Why do you boast in mischief, O mighty man? The goodness of God endures continually. 2 Your tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 You love evil more than good; and lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah. 4 You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.
  • Ps 55:21 : 21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
  • Ps 59:12 : 12 For 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 62:4 : 4 They only plan to cast him down from his high position; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God is witness:

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

  • Jer 9:3-5
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    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.

    4 Take 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.

    5 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Prov 26:28
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    28 A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

  • Jer 9:8
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    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.

  • Prov 12:19-20
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    19 The lip of truth will be established forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

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

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

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

  • Ps 59:12
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    12 For 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Ps 12:1
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    1 Help, LORD; for the godly person ceases; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

  • Rom 3:13-14
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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.'

    14 'Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.'

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

  • Ps 109:2
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    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 34:13
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    13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

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

  • Prov 26:24
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    24 He who hates others disguises it with his lips, and stores up deceit within him;

  • Ps 73:8-9
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    8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly of oppression; they speak loftily.

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

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

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

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    4 You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.

  • Ps 59:7
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    7 Behold, they belch out with their mouths; swords are in their lips, for who, they say, hears?

  • Prov 12:17
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    17 He who speaks truth declares righteousness, but a false witness deceit.

  • Ps 17:10
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    10 They are enclosed in their own fat; with their mouth they speak proudly.

  • Prov 20:19
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    19 He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets; therefore, do not associate with one who flatters with his lips.

  • Prov 4:24
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    24 Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.

  • Job 17:5
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    5 He that speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

  • Prov 24:28
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    28 Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.

  • Ps 41:6
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    6 And if he comes to see me, he speaks vain things; his heart gathers iniquity to itself; when he goes out, he tells it.

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

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

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    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?

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

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    12 A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.

  • Isa 59:4
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    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.