Verse 9
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
Referenced Verses
- Rom 3:13 : 13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"
- 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.
- Ps 51:6 : 6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
- Ps 52:2 : 2 Your tongue plots destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
- Luke 11:44 : 44 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don't know it."
- Mic 6:12 : 12 Her rich men are full of violence, Her inhabitants speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
- Jer 9:3-6 : 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 58:2-3 : 2 No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth. 3 The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
- Job 32:21-22 : 21 Please don't let me respect any man's person, Neither will I give flattering titles to any man. 22 For I don't know how to give flattering titles; Or else my Maker would soon take me away.
- Ps 12:2-3 : 2 Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart. 3 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, And the tongue that boasts,
- Ps 36:1-4 : 1 > An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: "There is no fear of God before his eyes." 2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, Too much to detect and hate his sin. 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 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are just a breath, And men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
- Ps 64:6 : 6 They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.
- Ps 111:1-3 : 1 Praise Yah! I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart, In the council of the upright, and in the congregation. 2 Yahweh's works are great, Pondered by all those who delight in them. 3 His work is honor and majesty. His righteousness endures forever.
- Prov 29:5 : 5 A man who flatters his neighbor, Spreads a net for his feet.
- Jer 4:14 : 14 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
- Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
- Mark 7:21-22 : 21 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, 22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
- Luke 11:39 : 39 The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
- Rom 1:29-31 : 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
- 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),