Jeremiah 9:5

World English Bible (2000)

They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

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  • Job 15:5 : 5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
  • Mic 6:12 : 12 Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
  • Eph 4:25 : 25 Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
  • 1 Tim 4:2 : 2 through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;
  • Gen 19:11 : 11 They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
  • Job 11:3 : 3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?
  • Ps 7:14 : 14 Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
  • Ps 50:19 : 19 "You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
  • Ps 64:3 : 3 who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
  • Ps 140:3 : 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
  • Isa 5:18 : 18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope;
  • Isa 41:6-7 : 6 Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, "Be strong!" 7 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good;" and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.
  • Isa 44:12-14 : 12 The blacksmith takes an axe, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint. 13 The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to reside in a house. 14 He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.
  • Isa 57:10 : 10 You were wearied with the length of your way; yet you didn't say, 'It is in vain.' You found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren't faint.
  • Isa 59:13-15 : 13 transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter. 15 Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.
  • Jer 9:8 : 8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.
  • Ezek 24:12 : 12 She has wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great rust doesn't go forth out of her; her rust doesn't [go forth] by fire.
  • Mic 6:3 : 3 My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

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    6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh.

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    2 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

  • Ps 5:6
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    6 You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

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    8 Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.

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    19 is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"

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    17 and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate," says Yahweh.

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    19 a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

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    5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

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    5 A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.