(NIV)
But he said, ‘Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.’
(ESV)
But he
said, “Your
brother came deceitfully, and he has
taken away your
blessing.”
(NIV)
Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Jacob’s sons replied deceitfully as they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamor.
(ESV)
The
sons of
Jacob answered Shechem and his
father Hamor deceitfully, because
he had
defiled their
sister Dinah.
(NIV)
Under cover he sent messengers to Abimelek, saying, ‘Gaal son of Ebed and his clan have come to Shechem and are stirring up the city against you.
(ESV)
And he
sent messengers to
Abimelech secretly,
saying, “Behold,
Gaal the
son of
Ebed and his
relatives have
come to
Shechem, and they are
stirring up the
city against you.
(NIV)
Joram turned about and fled, calling out to Ahaziah, ‘Treachery, Ahaziah!’
(ESV)
Then
Joram reined about and
fled,
saying to
Ahaziah, “
Treachery, O
Ahaziah!”
(NIV)
Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf?
Will you speak deceitfully for him?
(ESV)
Will you
speak falsely for
God and
speak deceitfully for him?
(NIV)
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil;
their womb fashions deceit.’
(ESV)
They
conceive trouble and
give birth to
evil,
and their
womb prepares deceit.”
(NIV)
my lips will not say anything wicked,
and my tongue will not utter lies.
(ESV)
my
lips will
not speak falsehood,
and my
tongue will
not utter deceit.
(NIV)
‘If I have walked with falsehood
or my foot has hurried after deceit –
(ESV)
“
If I have
walked with
falsehood and my
foot has
hastened to
deceit;
(NIV)
you destroy those who tell lies.
The bloodthirsty and deceitful
you,
Lord, detest.
(ESV)
You
destroy those who
speak lies;
the
Lord abhors the
bloodthirsty and
deceitful man.
(NIV)
His mouth is full of lies and threats;
trouble and evil are under his tongue.
(ESV)
His
mouth is
filled with
cursing and
deceit and
oppression;
under his
tongue are
mischief and
iniquity.
(NIV)
A prayer of David.
(ESV)
A Prayer of David.
(NIV)
Hear me,
Lord, my plea is just;
listen to my cry.
Hear my prayer –
it does not rise from deceitful lips.
(ESV)
Hear a
just cause, O
Lord;
attend to my
cry!
Give ear to my
prayer from
lips free of
deceit!
(NIV)
The one who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who does not trust in an idol
or swear by a false god.
(ESV)
He who has
clean hands and a
pure heart,
who does
not lift up his
soul to what is
false and does
not swear deceitfully.
(NIV)
Blessed is the one
whose sin the
Lord does not count against them
and in whose spirit is no deceit.
(ESV)
Blessed is the
man against whom the
Lord counts no iniquity,
and in whose
spirit there is
no deceit.
(NIV)
keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from telling lies.
(ESV)
Keep your
tongue from evil and your
lips from speaking deceit.
(NIV)
They do not speak peaceably,
but devise false accusations
against those who live quietly in the land.
(ESV)
For they do
not speak peace,
but
against those who are
quiet in the
land they
devise words of
deceit.
(NIV)
The words of their mouths are wicked and deceitful;
they fail to act wisely or do good.
(ESV)
The
words of his
mouth are
trouble and
deceit;
he has
ceased to act
wisely and do
good.
(NIV)
Those who want to kill me set their traps,
those who would harm me talk of my ruin;
all day long they scheme and lie.
(ESV)
Those who
seek my
life lay their snares;
those who
seek my
hurt speak of
ruin and
meditate treachery all day long.
(NIV)
Vindicate me, my God,
and plead my cause
against an unfaithful nation.
Rescue me from those who are
deceitful and wicked.
(ESV)
Vindicate me, O
God, and
defend my
cause against an
ungodly people,
from the
deceitful and
unjust man deliver me!
(NIV)
You use your mouth for evil
and harness your tongue to deceit.
(ESV)
“You
give your
mouth free rein for
evil,
and your
tongue frames deceit.
(NIV)
You who practise deceit,
your tongue plots destruction;
it is like a sharpened razor.
(ESV)
Your
tongue plots destruction,
like a
sharp razor, you
worker of
deceit.
(NIV)
You love every harmful word,
you deceitful tongue!
(ESV)
You
love all words that
devour,
O
deceitful tongue.
(NIV)
Destructive forces are at work in the city;
threats and lies never leave its streets.
(ESV)
ruin is in its
midst;
oppression and
fraud do
not depart from its
marketplace.
(NIV)
But you, God, will bring down the wicked
into the pit of decay;
the bloodthirsty and deceitful
will not live out half their days.
But as for me, I trust in you.
(ESV)
But you, O
God, will cast them
down into the
pit of
destruction;
men of
blood and
treachery shall
not live out
half their
days.
But I will
trust in you.
(NIV)
Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless,
as unreliable as a faulty bow.
(ESV)
but
turned away and
acted treacherously like their
fathers;
they
twisted like a
deceitful bow.
(NIV)
No one who practises deceit
will dwell in my house;
no one who speaks falsely
will stand in my presence.
(ESV)
No
one who
practices deceit shall
dwell in my
house;
no
one who
utters lies shall
continue before my
eyes.
(NIV)
for people who are wicked and deceitful
have opened their mouths against me;
they have spoken against me with lying tongues.
(ESV)
For wicked and
deceitful mouths are
opened against me,
speaking against me with
lying tongues.
(NIV)
You reject all who stray from your decrees,
for their delusions come to nothing.
(ESV)
You
spurn all who go
astray from your
statutes,
for their
cunning is in
vain.
(NIV)
Save me,
Lord,
from lying lips
and from deceitful tongues.
(ESV)
Deliver me, O
Lord,
from lying lips,
from a
deceitful tongue.
(NIV)
What will he do to you,
and what more besides,
you deceitful tongue?
(ESV)
What shall be
given to you,
and
what more shall be
done to you,
you
deceitful tongue?
(NIV)
Lazy hands make for poverty,
but diligent hands bring wealth.
(ESV)
A slack hand causes poverty,
but the
hand of the
diligent makes
rich.
(NIV)
The
Lord detests dishonest scales,
but accurate weights find favour with him.
(ESV)
A
false balance is an
abomination to the
Lord,
but a
just weight is his
delight.
(NIV)
The plans of the righteous are just,
but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
(ESV)
The
thoughts of the
righteous are
just;
the
counsels of the
wicked are
deceitful.
(NIV)
An honest witness tells the truth,
but a false witness tells lies.
(ESV)
Whoever
speaks the
truth gives honest evidence,
but a
false witness utters
deceit.
(NIV)
Deceit is in the hearts of those who plot evil,
but those who promote peace have joy.
(ESV)
Deceit is in the
heart of those who
devise evil,
but those who
plan peace have
joy.
(NIV)
Diligent hands will rule,
but laziness ends in forced labour.
(ESV)
The
hand of the
diligent will
rule,
while the
slothful will be put to
forced labor.
(NIV)
The lazy do not roast any game,
but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.
(ESV)
Whoever is
slothful will
not roast his
game,
but the
diligent man will get
precious wealth.
(NIV)
The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways,
but the folly of fools is deception.
(ESV)
The
wisdom of the
prudent is to
discern his
way,
but the
folly of
fools is
deceiving.
(NIV)
A truthful witness saves lives,
but a false witness is deceitful.
(ESV)
A
truthful witness saves lives,
but one who
breathes out lies is
deceitful.
(NIV)
Laziness brings on deep sleep,
and the shiftless go hungry.
(ESV)
Slothfulness casts into a
deep sleep,
and an
idle person will
suffer hunger.
(NIV)
The
Lord detests differing weights,
and dishonest scales do not please him.
(ESV)
Unequal weights are an
abomination to the
Lord,
and
false scales are
not good.
(NIV)
Enemies disguise themselves with their lips,
but in their hearts they harbour deceit.
(ESV)
Whoever
hates disguises himself with his
lips and
harbors deceit in his
heart;
(NIV)
He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.
(ESV)
And they
made his
grave with the
wicked and with a
rich man in his
death,
although he had
done no violence,
and there was
no deceit in his
mouth.
(NIV)
Like cages full of birds,
their houses are full of deceit;
they have become rich and powerful
(ESV)
Like a
cage full of
birds,
their
houses are
full of
deceit;
therefore they have become
great and
rich;
(NIV)
Why then have these people turned away?
Why does Jerusalem always turn away?
They cling to deceit;
they refuse to return.
(ESV)
Why then has
this people turned
away in
perpetual backsliding?
They hold
fast to
deceit;
they
refuse to
return.
(NIV)
You live in the midst of deception;
in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,’
declares the
Lord.
(ESV)
Heaping oppression upon oppression, and
deceit upon
deceit,
they
refuse to
know me,
declares the
Lord.
(NIV)
Their tongue is a deadly arrow;
it speaks deceitfully.
With their mouths they all speak cordially to their neighbours,
but in their hearts they set traps for them.
(ESV)
Their
tongue is a
deadly arrow;
it
speaks deceitfully;
with his
mouth each
speaks peace to his
neighbor,
but in his
heart he
plans an
ambush for him.
(NIV)
Then the
Lord said to me, ‘The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of their own minds.
(ESV)
And the
Lord said to me: “The
prophets are
prophesying lies in my
name. I did
not send them,
nor did I
command them
or speak to them. They are
prophesying to you a
lying vision,
worthless divination, and the
deceit of their own
minds.
(NIV)
How long will this continue in the hearts of these lying prophets, who prophesy the delusions of their own minds?
(ESV)
How
long shall there
be lies in the
heart of the
prophets who
prophesy lies, and who
prophesy the
deceit of their own
heart,
(NIV)
‘A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the
Lord’s work!
A curse on anyone who keeps their sword from bloodshed!
(ESV)
“
Cursed is he who
does the
work of the
Lord with
slackness, and
cursed is he who
keeps back his
sword from
bloodshed.
(NIV)
He will cause deceit to prosper, and he will consider himself superior. When they feel secure, he will destroy many and take his stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be destroyed, but not by human power.
(ESV)
By his
cunning he shall make
deceit prosper under his
hand, and in his own
mind he shall become
great. Without
warning he shall
destroy many. And he shall even
rise up against the
Prince of
princes, and he shall be
broken—but by
no human
hand.
(NIV)
After coming to an agreement with him, he will act deceitfully, and with only a few people he will rise to power.
(ESV)
And
from the time that an
alliance is made with him he shall
act deceitfully, and he shall
become strong with a
small people.
(NIV)
They do not turn to the Most High;
they are like a faulty bow.
Their leaders will fall by the sword
because of their insolent words.
For this they will be ridiculed
in the land of Egypt.
(ESV)
They
return, but not
upward;
they are like a
treacherous bow;
their
princes shall
fall by the
sword because of the
insolence of their
tongue.
This shall be their
derision in the
land of
Egypt.
(NIV)
Ephraim has surrounded me with lies,
Israel with deceit.
And Judah is unruly against God,
even against the faithful Holy One.
(ESV)
Ephraim has
surrounded me with
lies,
and the
house of
Israel with
deceit,
but
Judah still
walks with
God and is
faithful to the
Holy One.
(NIV)
The merchant uses dishonest scales
and loves to defraud.
(ESV)
A
merchant, in whose
hands are
false balances,
he
loves to
oppress.
(NIV)
saying,
‘When will the New Moon be over
that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
that we may market wheat?’ –
skimping on the measure,
boosting the price
and cheating with dishonest scales,
(ESV)
saying, “
When will the
new moon be
over,
that we may
sell grain?
And the
Sabbath,
that we may
offer wheat for sale,
that we may make the
ephah small and the
shekel great and
deal deceitfully with
false balances,
(NIV)
Shall I acquit someone with dishonest scales,
with a bag of false weights?
(ESV)
Shall I
acquit the man with
wicked scales and with a
bag of
deceitful weights?
(NIV)
Your rich people are violent;
your inhabitants are liars
and their tongues speak deceitfully.
(ESV)
Your rich
men are
full of
violence;
your
inhabitants speak lies,
and their
tongue is
deceitful in their
mouth.
(NIV)
On that day I will punish
all who avoid stepping on the threshold,
who fill the temple of their gods
with violence and deceit.
(ESV)
On that
day I will
punish everyone who
leaps over the
threshold,
and those who
fill their
master’s house with
violence and
fraud.
(NIV)
They will do no wrong;
they will tell no lies.
A deceitful tongue
will not be found in their mouths.
They will eat and lie down
and no one will make them afraid.’
(ESV)
those who are
left in
Israel;
they shall
do no injustice and
speak no lies,
nor shall there be
found in their
mouth a
deceitful tongue.
For they shall
graze and
lie down,
and
none shall
make them afraid.”
(NIV)
The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful. (ESV)
As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
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