Psalms 52:3
You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
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- Ps 62:4 : 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.
- Jer 4:22 : 22 "For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."
- Jer 9:3-5 : 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. 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.
- 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.
- Mic 3:2 : 2 You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
- 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.
- Rom 1:25 : 25 who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
- 2 Tim 3:4 : 4 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
- Rev 22:15 : 15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
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18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
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.
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13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.
- Ps 36:3-42 verses74%
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.
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5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
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4 For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you.
5 The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.
6 You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
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5 A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.
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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.
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3 What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?
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22 Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.
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163 I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.
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4 An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
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24 A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.
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7 Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
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3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.
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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.
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2 You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
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33 How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have taught even the wicked women your ways.
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2 No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
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3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
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13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
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7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
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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.
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3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
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10 For, "He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.
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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.
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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,
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20 Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.
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2 Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
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18 Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
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28 A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.
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10 You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
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13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"
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7 You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
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20 One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
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2 for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.
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14 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;
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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.
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17 "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.