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Micah 6:12
For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; the tongues in their mouths are deceitful.
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Job 15:5
Your iniquity teaches you what to say, and you choose the language of the crafty.
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Genesis 19:11
They struck the men who were at the entrance of the house, both young and old, with blindness so that they were unable to find the entrance.
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Micah 6:3
My people, what have I done to you, or how have I wearied you? Testify against me!
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Isaiah 59:13-15
transgression and deception against the LORD, turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far off. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil is plundered. The LORD saw that there was no justice, and he was offended.
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Isaiah 57:10
You became weary on your many journeys, but you did not say,“ It’s hopeless!” You found a renewal of your strength; therefore you did not grow weak.
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1 Timothy 4 2
through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared.
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Psalms 64:3
who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim bitter words like arrows,
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Isaiah 44:12-14
The ironworker labors over the coals, shapes the idol with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. Also he grows hungry and his strength fails; he doesn’t drink water and is faint.The woodworker stretches out a measuring line, he outlines it with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He makes it according to a human form, like a beautiful person, to dwell in a temple.He cuts down cedars for his use, or he takes a cypress or an oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
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Ezekiel 24:12
It has frustrated every effort; its thick corrosion will not come off. Into the fire with its corrosion!
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Jeremiah 9:3
They bent their tongues like their bows; lies and not faithfulness prevail in the land, for they proceed from one evil to another, and they do not take me into account. This is the LORD’s declaration.
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Isaiah 41:6-7
Each one helps the other, and says to another,“ Take courage!”The craftsman encourages the metalworker; the one who flattens with the hammer encourages the one who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering,“ It is good.” He fastens it with nails so that it will not fall over.
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Psalms 50:19
You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue for deceit.
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Proverbs 4:16
For they can’t sleep unless they have done what is evil; they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.
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Psalms 140:3
They make their tongues as sharp as a snake’s bite; viper’s venom is under their lips. Selah
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Job 11:3
Should your babbling put others to silence, so that you can keep on ridiculing with no one to humiliate you?
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Ephesians 4:25
Therefore, putting away lying, speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, because we are members of one another.
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Psalms 7:14
See, the wicked one is pregnant with evil, conceives trouble, and gives birth to deceit.
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Habakkuk 2:13
Is it not from the LORD of Armies that the peoples labor only to fuel the fire and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?
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Isaiah 5:18
Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,
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Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongues are deadly arrows— they speak deception. With his mouth one speaks peaceably with his friend, but inwardly he sets up an ambush.