Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

Bible References

Your hands

Isaiah 1:15
When you lift up your hands in prayer,
I will refuse to look at you;
even if you offer countless prayers,
I will not listen.
Your hands are covered with blood.
Jeremiah 2:30
I have struck down your children in vain;
they would not accept discipline.
Your own sword has devoured your prophets
like a ravaging lion.
Jeremiah 22:17
But you have eyes and a heart for nothing
except your own dishonest profit,
shedding innocent blood
and committing extortion and oppression.
Ezekiel 7:23
Forge the chain,
for the land is filled with crimes of bloodshed,
and the city is filled with violence.
Ezekiel 9:9
He answered me: “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of perversity. For they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land; He does not see.’
Ezekiel 22:2
“As for you, son of man, will you pass judgment? Will you pass judgment against the city of blood? Then explain all her detestable practices to her.
Ezekiel 35:6
therefore, as I live”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“I will destine you for bloodshed, and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.
Hosea 4:2
Cursing, lying, murder, stealing,
and adultery are rampant;
one act of bloodshed follows another.
Micah 3:10
who build Zion with bloodshed
and Jerusalem with injustice.
Micah 7:2
Godly people have vanished from the land;
there is no one upright among the people.
All of them wait in ambush to shed blood;
they hunt each other with a net.
Matthew 27:4
“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said.

“What’s that to us?” they said. “See to it yourself!”

Your lips

Jeremiah 7:8
But look, you keep trusting in deceitful words that cannot help.
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.
Ezekiel 13:8
“Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: I am against you because you have spoken falsely and had lying visions.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
Hosea 7:3
They please the king with their evil,
the princes with their lies.
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.
1 Timothy 4:2
through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared.

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