Jeremiah 9:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

One friend deceives another and no one tells the truth. These people have trained themselves to tell lies. They do wrong and are unable to repent.

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  • Job 15:5 : 5 Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty.
  • Mic 6:12 : 12 The city’s wealthy people readily resort to violence; her inhabitants tell lies, their tongues speak deceptive words.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Be sure of this! The LORD of Heaven’s Armies has decreed: The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.
  • Eph 4:25 : 25 Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.
  • 1 Tim 4:2 : 2 influenced by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared.
  • Gen 19:11 : 11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest, with blindness. The men outside wore themselves out trying to find the door.
  • Job 11:3 : 3 Should people remain silent at your idle talk, and should no one rebuke you when you mock?
  • Ps 7:14 : 14 See the one who is pregnant with wickedness, who conceives destructive plans, and gives birth to harmful lies–
  • Ps 50:19 : 19 You do damage with words, and use your tongue to deceive.
  • Ps 64:3 : 3 They sharpen their tongues like a sword; they aim their arrow, a slanderous charge,
  • Ps 140:3 : 3 Their tongues wound like a serpent; a viper’s venom is behind their lips.(Selah)
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.
  • Isa 5:18 : 18 Beware, those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.
  • Isa 41:6-7 : 6 They help one another; one says to the other,‘Be strong!’ 7 The craftsman encourages the metalsmith, the one who wields the hammer encourages the one who pounds on the anvil. He approves the quality of the welding, and nails it down so it won’t fall over.”
  • Isa 44:12-14 : 12 A blacksmith works with his tool and forges metal over the coals. He forms it with hammers; he makes it with his strong arm. He gets hungry and loses his energy; he drinks no water and gets tired. 13 A carpenter takes measurements; he marks out an outline of its form; he scrapes it with chisels, and marks it with a compass. He patterns it after the human form, like a well-built human being, and puts it in a shrine. 14 He cuts down cedars and acquires a cypress or an oak. He gets trees from the forest; he plants a cedar and the rain makes it grow.
  • Isa 57:10 : 10 Because of the long distance you must travel, you get tired, but you do not say,‘I give up.’ You get renewed energy, so you don’t collapse.
  • Isa 59:13-15 : 13 We have rebelled and tried to deceive the LORD; we turned back from following our God. We stir up oppression and rebellion; we tell lies we concocted in our minds. 14 Justice is driven back; godliness stands far off. Indeed, honesty stumbles in the city square and morality is not even able to enter. 15 Honesty has disappeared; the one who tries to avoid evil is robbed. The LORD watches and is displeased, for there is no justice.
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 The Lord Laments That He Has No Choice But to Judge Them The LORD says,“These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows. Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies. They have become powerful in the land, but they have not done so by honest means. Indeed, they do one evil thing after another and do not pay attention to me.
  • Jer 9:8 : 8 Their tongues are like deadly arrows. They are always telling lies. Friendly words for their neighbors come from their mouths. But their minds are thinking up ways to trap them.
  • Ezek 24:12 : 12 It has tried my patience; yet its thick rot is not removed from it. Subject its rot to the fire!
  • Mic 6:3 : 3 “My people, how have I wronged you? How have I wearied you? Answer me!

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    19You do damage with words, and use your tongue to deceive.

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    2Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver.

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    6You destroy liars; the LORD despises violent and deceitful people.

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    19so is a person who has deceived his neighbor, and said,“Was I not only joking?”

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    19a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who spreads discord among family members.

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    5Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty.

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    5A false witness will not go unpunished, and the one who spouts out lies will not escape punishment.