Psalms 52:2

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Prov 18:21 : 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
  • Ps 50:19 : 19 "You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
  • Ps 64:2-6 : 2 Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil; 3 who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words, 4 to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly. 5 They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?" 6 They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.
  • Ps 109:2 : 2 for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
  • Ps 120:2 : 2 Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
  • Ps 140:2-3 : 2 those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war. 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.
  • Prov 6:16-19 : 16 There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: 17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood; 18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief, 19 a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
  • Jer 9:3-4 : 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. 4 Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
  • Matt 26:59 : 59 Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
  • 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.
  • Acts 24:1 : 1 After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.
  • Acts 24:5 : 5 For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
  • 2 Cor 11:13 : 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles.
  • Rev 12:10 : 10 I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 52:3-5
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    3 You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.

    4 You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

    5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

  • Ps 50:19-20
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    19 "You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

    20 You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.

  • 7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

  • 1 Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness endures continually.

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

  • 3 What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

  • Ps 140:2-3
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    2 those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

    3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.

  • 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.

  • 13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

  • 3 who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

  • 2 for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

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    9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

  • Ps 36:3-4
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    3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

    4 He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.

  • 28 A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

  • 5 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.

  • Ps 12:2-3
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    2 Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

    3 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

  • 2 for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

  • 14 in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

  • 18 There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

  • 7 The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

  • 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.

  • 4 An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

  • 20 Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.

  • 13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"

  • 20 One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

  • 21 His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

  • 30 One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

  • 12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

  • 8 One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

  • 31 The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

  • 12 They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

  • Ps 62:3-4
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    3 How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

    4 They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

  • 12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

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

  • 12 "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

  • 4 Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out your tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,

  • 8 whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • 18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

  • 12 Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

  • 11 For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

  • 18 A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

  • 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.

  • 2 No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.