Proverbs 6:17

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Summary

Proverbs 6:17

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

A proud look

Lying

And hands

Isaiah 59:3

General references

Deuteronomy 19:10

Proverbs 30:13

Bible References

A proud look

A generation, how its eyes were raised up and its eyelashes will be lifted up.

The unjust according to the height of his anger, will not seek: God is not in all his thoughts.

Thou wilt save the humble people, and thou wilt humble the eyes of the lifted up.

For this, pride surrounded them as a neck-chain; the dress of violence will cover to them.

Slandering his neighbor in secret, him will I cut off: him being lofty of eyes and broad of heart, with him I will not eat

Song of ascensions to David. O Jehovah, my heart was not lifted up, and mine eyes were not exalted, and I went not in great things and in wonders above me.

The lofty eyes of man were humbled, and the height of men bowed down, and Jehovah alone was exalted in that day.

The withdrawing of their face answered against them; and they announced their sins as Sodom, and they covered not. Wo to their soul! for they rewarded evil to themselves.

Likewise, ye younger, be subjected to the elders. And all being subject to one another, be wrapped up in humility: for God opposes the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

Lying

Lips of falsehood an abomination of Jehovah: and they doing faithfulness his delight

A witness of faithfulnesses will not lie: and a witness of falsehood will breathe out lies.

A tongue of falsehood will hate its crushing, and a smooth mouth will make an overthrow.

Thou shalt destroy those speaking falsehood: a man of bloods and deceit Jehovah will abhor.

O Jehovah, deliver my soul from lips of falsehood, from a tongue of deceit.

Hear the word of Jehovah, ye sons of Israel: for a contention to Jehovah with the inhabitants of the land, for no truth and no kindness and no knowledge of God in the land.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the eager desires of your father will ye do. He was slaying men from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he would speak a lie, he speaks of his own things; for he is a liar, and the father of him.

And without, dogs, and charmers and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one loving and doing a lie.

And hands

If they shall say, Go with us, we will lie in wait for blood, we will hide for the innocent gratuitously;

Cursed he taking a gift to strike the soul of innocent blood: and all the people said, Amen.

And also the innocent blood which he poured forth, (and he will fill Jerusalem with innocent blood) and Jehovah would not pardon.

And in the spreading forth of your hands I will hide mine eyes from you.; also when ye shall multiply prayer I hear not: your hands were full of blood.

For your hands were polluted with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips spake falsehood, your tongue will mutter evil.

General references

And innocent blood shall not be poured out in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee an inheritance, and bloods were upon thee.

A generation, how its eyes were raised up and its eyelashes will be lifted up.