Psalms 12:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

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  • Ps 41:6 : 6 If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
  • Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and 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.
  • Ps 5:9 : 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 144:8 : 8 Whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
  • Ps 28:3 : 3 Don't draw me away with the wicked, With the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, But mischief is in their hearts.
  • Jas 1:8 : 8 He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
  • 1 Chr 12:33 : 33 Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the host, who could set the battle in array, with all manner of instruments of war, fifty thousand, and who could order [the battle array, and were] not of double heart.
  • Ezek 12:24 : 24 For there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
  • Ps 144:11 : 11 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, Whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
  • Prov 20:19 : 19 He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; Therefore don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
  • Prov 29:5 : 5 A man who flatters his neighbor, Spreads a net for his feet.
  • Jer 9:2-6 : 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 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 you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't you 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. 6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh.
  • Ps 36:3-4 : 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.
  • Ps 38:12 : 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 52:1-4 : 1 > Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness endures continually. 2 Your tongue plots destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 You love evil more than good, Lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah. 4 You love all devouring words, You deceitful tongue.
  • Ps 55:21 : 21 His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, Yet they were drawn swords.
  • Ps 59:12 : 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.
  • 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.
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

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

  • Jer 9:3-5
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    3They 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.

    4Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't you trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

    5They 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 5:9
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    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

  • Prov 12:22
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    22Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, But those who do the truth are his delight.

  • Ps 78:36
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    36But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied to him with their tongue.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2For their hearts plot violence, And their lips talk about mischief.

  • Prov 26:28
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    28A lying tongue hates those it hurts; And a flattering mouth works ruin.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8Their 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.

  • Prov 12:19-20
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    19Truth's lips will be established forever, But a lying tongue is only momentary.

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

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

  • Ps 144:8
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    8Whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • Ps 62:4
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    4They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12For 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.

  • Prov 29:5
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    5A man who flatters his neighbor, Spreads a net for his feet.

  • Mic 6:12
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    12Her rich men are full of violence, Her inhabitants speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

  • Ps 52:2
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    2Your tongue plots destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

  • Prov 17:4
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    4An evil-doer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

  • Ps 12:1
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    1> Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

  • Rom 3:13-14
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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;"

    14"Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."

  • Ps 31:18
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    18Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

  • Ps 109:2
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    2For 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 34:13
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    13Keep your tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking lies.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19"You give your mouth to evil. You harnesses your tongue for deceit.

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    24A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, But he harbors evil in his heart.

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    8They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

    9They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

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    3They make the king glad with their wickedness, And the princes with their lies.

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    2For he flatters himself in his own eyes, Too much to detect and hate his sin.

    3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

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    20For they don't speak peace, But they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

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    4You love all devouring words, You deceitful tongue.

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    7Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"

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    17He who is truthful testifies honestly, But a false witness lies.

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    10They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

  • Prov 20:19
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    19He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; Therefore don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

  • Prov 4:24
    72%

    24Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

  • Job 17:5
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    5He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

  • Prov 24:28
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    28Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.

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    6If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

  • Job 15:35
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    35They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."

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    6You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.

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    2Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, From a deceitful tongue.

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

  • Prov 10:18
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    18He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

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    12A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

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    4None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.