Proverbs 25:18

More Proverbs Of Solomon

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Let your foot seldom be in your neighbor’s house,
Or he will become tired of you and hate you.
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Like a club and a sword and a piercing arrow
Is a man who testifies falsely against his neighbor (acquaintance).
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Like a broken tooth or an unsteady foot
Is confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble.

Bears False Witness

False Witness

Who Testifies

Hammer

Psalm 57:4

My life is among lions;
I must lie among those who breathe out fire—
The sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows,
And their tongue a sharp sword.

Proverbs 12:18

There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword,
But the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Jeremiah 9:8

“Their tongue is a murderous arrow;
It speaks deceit;
With his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor,
But in his heart he lays traps and waits in ambush for him.

Psalm 52:2

Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalm 55:21

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter,
But his heart was hostile;
His words were softer than oil,
Yet they were drawn swords.

Psalm 120:3-4

What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done to you,
You deceitful tongue?—

Psalm 140:3

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s;
Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.

Proverbs 24:28

Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause,
And do not deceive with your lips [speak neither lies nor half-truths].

Jeremiah 9:3

“They bend their tongue like their bow;
[Their] lies and not truth prevail and grow strong in the land;
For they proceed from evil to evil,
And they do not know and understand and acknowledge Me,” says the Lord.

James 3:6

And the tongue is [in a sense] a fire, the very world of injustice and unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our members as that which contaminates the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life [the cycle of man’s existence], and is itself set on fire by hell (Gehenna).