Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

Bible References

They bend

Jeremiah 9:5
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.
Psalm 52:2
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalm 64:3
who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
Psalm 120:2
Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
Micah 7:3
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
Romans 3:13
"Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"

Valiant

Matthew 10:31
Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
Mark 8:38
For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."
Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
Philippians 1:28
and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.
Jude 1:3
Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
Revelation 12:11
They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.

For they

Jeremiah 7:26
yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.
2 Timothy 3:13
But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

They know

Jeremiah 4:22
"For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."
Jeremiah 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 31:34
and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.
Judges 2:10
Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, who didn't know Yahweh, nor yet the work which he had worked for Israel.
1 Samuel 2:12
Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn't know Yahweh.
Hosea 4:1
Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
John 8:54
Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.
John 17:3
This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
Romans 1:28
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
2 Corinthians 4:4
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

General references

Genesis 39:16
She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.
Judges 16:6
Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you."
Proverbs 25:18
A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
Habakkuk 1:3
Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
Acts 24:9
The Jews also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were so.