Proverbs 19:28

World English Bible (2000)

A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.

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  • Job 15:16 : 16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
  • Job 34:7 : 7 What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,
  • Job 20:12-13 : 12 "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue, 13 though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;
  • 1 Kgs 21:10 : 10 Set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, 'You cursed God and the king!' Then carry him out, and stone him to death."
  • 1 Kgs 21:13 : 13 The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. The base fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king!" Then they carried him out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.
  • Ps 10:5 : 5 His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
  • Ps 10:11 : 11 He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."
  • Prov 15:14 : 14 The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
  • Isa 28:14-18 : 14 Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem: 15 "Because you have said, 'We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won't come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.'" 16 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily. 17 I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place. 18 Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.
  • Hos 4:8 : 8 They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
  • Luke 18:2-4 : 2 saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear God, and didn't respect man. 3 A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!' 4 He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,
  • Acts 6:11-13 : 11 Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God." 12 They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council, 13 and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

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