Verse 4

They spend all their time planning how to bring him down. They love to use deceit; they pronounce blessings with their mouths, but inwardly they utter curses.(Selah)

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 28:3 : 3 Do not drag me away with evil men, with those who behave wickedly, who talk so friendly to their neighbors, while they plan to harm them!
  • Ps 55:21 : 21 His words are as smooth as butter, but he harbors animosity in his heart. His words seem softer than oil, but they are really like sharp swords.
  • Ps 5:9 : 9 For they do not speak the truth; their stomachs are like the place of destruction, their throats like an open grave, their tongues like a steep slope leading into it.
  • Ps 2:1-3 : 1 Why do the nations rebel? Why are the countries devising plots that will fail? 2 The kings of the earth form a united front; the rulers collaborate against the LORD and his anointed king. 3 They say,“Let’s tear off the shackles they’ve put on us! Let’s free ourselves from their ropes!”
  • Ps 51:6 : 6 Look, you desire integrity in the inner man; you want me to possess wisdom.
  • Ps 52:3 : 3 You love evil more than good, lies more than speaking the truth.(Selah)
  • Ps 119:163 : 163 I hate and despise deceit; I love your law.
  • Prov 6:17 : 17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
  • Prov 13:5 : 5 The righteous person will reject anything false, but the wicked person will act in shameful disgrace.
  • Hos 7:3 : 3 Political Intrigue and Conspiracy in the Palace The royal advisers delight the king with their evil schemes, the princes make him glad with their lies.
  • Matt 2:3-4 : 3 When King Herod heard this he was alarmed, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.
  • Matt 2:16 : 16 When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he became enraged. He sent men to kill all the children in Bethlehem and throughout the surrounding region from the age of two and under, according to the time he had learned from the wise men.
  • Matt 22:15 : 15 Paying Taxes to Caesar Then the Pharisees went out and planned together to entrap him with his own words.
  • Matt 22:23 : 23 Marriage and the Resurrection The same day Sadducees(who say there is no resurrection) came to him and asked him,
  • Matt 22:34-35 : 34 The Greatest Commandment Now when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they assembled together. 35 And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him:
  • Matt 26:3-4 : 3 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas. 4 They planned to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
  • Matt 27:1 : 1 Jesus Brought Before Pilate When it was early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to execute him.
  • Luke 11:39 : 39 But the Lord said to him,“Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
  • Luke 20:20 : 20 Paying Taxes to Caesar Then they watched him carefully and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They wanted to take advantage of what he might say so that they could deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.
  • John 8:44 : 44 You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
  • John 11:47-50 : 47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said,“What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs. 48 If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary and our nation.” 49 Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said,“You know nothing at all! 50 You do not realize that it is more to your advantage to have one man die for the people than for the whole nation to perish.”
  • Acts 4:16-17 : 16 saying,“What should we do with these men? For it is plain to all who live in Jerusalem that a notable miraculous sign has come about through them, and we cannot deny it. 17 But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.”
  • Acts 4:25-28 : 25 who said by the Holy Spirit through your servant David our forefather,‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot foolish things? 26 The kings of the earth stood together, and the rulers assembled together, against the Lord and against his Christ.’ 27 “For indeed both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, 28 to do as much as your power and your plan had decided beforehand would happen.
  • Rom 1:32 : 32 Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.
  • Rev 22:15 : 15 Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!