Verse 17

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

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  • Prov 12:22 : 22 Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who deal truthfully are His delight.
  • Ps 101:5 : 5 Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that has a haughty look and a proud heart I will not endure.
  • Isa 1:15 : 15 And when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: indeed, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Ps 120:2-3 : 2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue. 3 What shall be given to you? Or what shall be done to you, you false tongue?
  • Ps 18:27 : 27 For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks.
  • Deut 19:10 : 10 That innocent blood may not be shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and thus blood guilt be upon you.
  • Ps 5:6 : 6 You shall destroy those who speak falsehood; the LORD will abhor the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
  • Isa 2:11 : 11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
  • Isa 3:9 : 9 The look on their faces testifies against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
  • Isa 3:16 : 16 Moreover the LORD says, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, making a tinkling with their feet:
  • Prov 14:5 : 5 A faithful witness will not lie, but a false witness will utter lies.
  • Prov 21:4 : 4 A proud look, a haughty heart, and the plowing of the wicked are 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, and their eyelids are lifted up.
  • Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
  • Prov 17:7 : 7 Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool, much less lying lips for a prince.
  • Isa 59:3-7 : 3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness. 4 No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch viper’s eggs and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies, and what is crushed breaks out into a viper. 6 Their webs will not become garments, nor will 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 hurry to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.
  • Hos 4:1-2 : 1 Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel, for the LORD has a dispute with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
  • John 8:44 : 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise, you younger ones, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of you be subject to one another, and be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.
  • Rev 22:15 : 15 For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and sexually immoral, and murderers, and idolaters, and whoever loves and makes a lie.
  • Ps 10:4 : 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God; God is not in all his thoughts.
  • Deut 27:25 : 25 Cursed be he who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person. And 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, which the LORD would not pardon.
  • Ps 31:18 : 18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
  • Ps 73:6-8 : 6 Therefore pride surrounds them as a chain; violence covers them as a garment. 7 Their eyes bulge with abundance; they have more than heart could wish. 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly of oppression; they speak loftily.
  • Ps 131:1 : 1 Lord, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes arrogant: neither do I concern myself with great matters, or with things too high for me.