Psalms 5:9
9 For there is no truth in their mouth;their inmost self is adestruction;
btheir throat is can open grave;
they dflatter with their tongue.
Psalms 12:3-4
3 May the Lord cut off all eflattering lips,the tongue that makes fgreat boasts,
4those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail,
our lips are with us; who is master over us?”
Psalms 36:3
3The words of his mouth are gtrouble and deceit;hhe has ceased to act wisely and do good.
Psalms 52:2
2Your itongue plots destruction,like ja sharp razor, you kworker of deceit.
Psalms 57:4
4 My soul is in the midst of llions;I lie down amid fiery beasts—
the children of man, whose mteeth are spears and arrows,
whose ntongues are sharp swords.
Isaiah 59:3
3 oFor your hands are defiled with bloodand your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
your tongue mutters wickedness.
Jeremiah 9:3-5
3 pThey bend their tongue like a bow;falsehood and not truth has grown strong ▼
▼Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong
in the land;for they proceed from evil to evil,
rand they do not know me, declares the Lord.
4 sLet everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every tbrother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor ugoes about as a slanderer.
5Everyone deceives his neighbor,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
they weary themselves committing iniquity.
Ezekiel 13:7
7Have you not seen a false vision and uttered a lying divination, vwhenever you have said, ‘Declares the Lord,’ although I have not spoken?”Romans 3:4
4By no means! wLet God be true though xevery one were a liar, as it is written,y“That you may be justified in your words,
and prevail when you zare judged.”
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