Proverbs 6:17

World English Bible (2000)

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;

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  • Prov 12:22 : 22 Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.
  • Ps 101:5 : 5 I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
  • Isa 1:15 : 15 When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
  • Ps 120:2-3 : 2 Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. 3 What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?
  • Ps 18:27 : 27 For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.
  • Deut 19:10 : 10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.
  • Ps 5:6 : 6 You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
  • Isa 2:11 : 11 The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
  • Isa 3:9 : 9 The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
  • Isa 3:16 : 16 Moreover Yahweh said, "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;
  • Prov 14:5 : 5 A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.
  • Prov 21:4 : 4 A high look, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
  • Prov 26:28 : 28 A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.
  • Prov 30:13 : 13 There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.
  • Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
  • Prov 17:7 : 7 Arrogant speech isn't fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.
  • Isa 59:3-7 : 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. 4 None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper. 6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
  • Hos 4:1-2 : 1 Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
  • John 8:44 : 44 You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
  • Rev 22:15 : 15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
  • Ps 10:4 : 4 The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
  • Deut 27:25 : 25 'Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • 2 Kgs 24:4 : 4 and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not pardon.
  • Ps 31:18 : 18 Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
  • Ps 73:6-8 : 6 Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment. 7 Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit. 8 They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
  • Ps 131:1 : 1 Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

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