Psalms 31:18

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May lying lips be silenced– lips that speak defiantly against the innocent with arrogance and contempt!

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 94:4 : 4 They spew out threats and speak defiantly; all the evildoers boast.
  • Jude 1:15 : 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict every person of all their thoroughly ungodly deeds that they have committed, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
  • 1 Sam 2:3 : 3 Don’t keep speaking so arrogantly. Proud talk should not come out of your mouth! For the LORD is a God who knows; he evaluates what people do.
  • 2 Chr 32:16 : 16 Sennacherib’s servants further insulted the LORD God and his servant Hezekiah.
  • Ps 12:3 : 3 May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts!
  • Ps 59:12 : 12 They speak sinful words. So let them be trapped by their own pride and by the curses and lies they speak!
  • Ps 63:11 : 11 But the king will rejoice in God; everyone who takes oaths in his name will boast, for the mouths of those who speak lies will be shut up.
  • Ps 64:3-4 : 3 They sharpen their tongues like a sword; they aim their arrow, a slanderous charge, 4 in order to shoot down the innocent in secluded places. They shoot at him suddenly and are unafraid of retaliation.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But as for the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death.”
  • Rev 22:15 : 15 Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!
  • Ps 120:2 : 2 I said,“O LORD, rescue me from those who lie with their lips and those who deceive with their tongue.
  • Ps 123:3-4 : 3 Show us favor, O LORD, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some. 4 We have had our fill of the taunts of the self-assured, of the contempt of the proud.
  • Ps 140:9-9 : 9 As for the heads of those who surround me– may the harm done by their lips overwhelm them! 10 May he rain down fiery coals upon them! May he throw them into the fire! From bottomless pits they will not escape. 11 A slanderer will not endure on the earth; calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down.
  • Prov 12:19 : 19 The one who tells the truth will endure forever, but the one who lies will last only for a moment.
  • Isa 37:22-24 : 22 this is what the LORD says about him:“The virgin daughter Zion despises you– she makes fun of you; daughter Jerusalem shakes her head after you. 23 Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at? At whom have you shouted and looked so arrogantly? At the Holy One of Israel! 24 Through your messengers you taunted the Lord,‘With my many chariots I climbed up the high mountains, the slopes of Lebanon. I cut down its tall cedars and its best evergreens. I invaded its most remote regions, its thickest woods.
  • Isa 54:17 : 17 No weapon forged to be used against you will succeed; you will refute everyone who tries to accuse you. This is what the LORD will do for his servants– I will vindicate them,” says the LORD.
  • Matt 10:25 : 25 It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house‘Beelzebul,’ how much worse will they call the members of his household!
  • Matt 12:24 : 24 But when the Pharisees heard this they said,“He does not cast out demons except by the power of Beelzebul, the ruler of demons!”
  • John 8:44 : 44 You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
  • John 8:48 : 48 The Judeans replied,“Aren’t we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?”
  • Acts 25:7 : 7 When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many serious charges that they were not able to prove.

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