Verse 3

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.

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  • Ps 55:21 : 21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are senseless children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
  • Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
  • Ps 12:2-3 : 2 They speak vanity everyone with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. 3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things:
  • Zeph 1:6 : 6 And those that have turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for Him.
  • Matt 22:15-18 : 15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle him in his talk. 16 And they sent out to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that you are true, and teach the way of God in truth, nor do you care about anyone, for you do not regard the person of men. 17 Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? 18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why do you test me, you hypocrites?
  • Matt 22:35 : 35 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him, and saying,
  • Heb 10:39 : 39 But we are not of those who draw back to destruction, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.
  • 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
  • Ps 58:3 : 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
  • Ps 94:8 : 8 Understand, you senseless among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?
  • Ps 125:5 : 5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them away with the workers of iniquity; peace shall be upon Israel.
  • Ps 140:3 : 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
  • 1 Sam 11:6-9 : 6 And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those tidings, and his anger was greatly kindled. 7 And he took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the territories of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, "Whosoever does not come after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen." And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent. 8 And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. 9 And they said to the messengers that came, "Thus shall you say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: 'Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have help.'" And the messengers came and showed it to the men of Jabesh, and they were glad. 10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, "Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you." 11 And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies, and they came into the midst of the host at the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day, and it came to pass that those who remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together. 12 And the people said to Samuel, "Who is he that said, 'Shall Saul reign over us?' bring the men, that we may put them to death." 13 And Saul said, "There shall not a man be put to death this day, for today the LORD has brought salvation to Israel."
  • 1 Sam 13:13-14 : 13 And Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which he commanded you: for now the LORD would have established your kingdom upon Israel forever. 14 But now your kingdom shall not continue: the LORD has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD has appointed him to be captain over His people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.
  • 1 Sam 15:26 : 26 And Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with you: for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.
  • 1 Sam 16:14 : 14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.
  • 1 Sam 18:21 : 21 And Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, Today you shall be my son-in-law in one of the two.
  • 1 Sam 19:6-7 : 6 And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan; and Saul swore, As the LORD lives, he shall not be killed. 7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past.
  • 1 Sam 26:21 : 21 Then Saul said, "I have sinned. Return, my son David, for I will harm you no more because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have played the fool and have erred exceedingly."
  • Ps 5:9 : 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.