Proverbs 6:17

What Yahweh Hates

¹⁶ There are six things that the Lord hates, even seven things that are an abomination to him: ¹⁷ haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, ¹⁸ a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift to run to evil,

Innocent Blood

Lifted Up

Shed Innocent Blood

Proverbs 12:22

The Lord abhors a person who lies, but those who deal truthfully are his delight.

Isaiah 1:15

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way; when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood.

Psalm 101:5

I will destroy anyone who slanders his neighbor in secret. I will not tolerate anyone who has a cocky demeanor and an arrogant attitude.

Deuteronomy 19:10

You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.

Psalm 18:27

For you deliver oppressed people, but you bring down those who have a proud look.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, "Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.

Proverbs 14:5

A truthful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.

Proverbs 21:4

Haughty eyes and a proud heart -- the agricultural product of the wicked is sin.

Proverbs 26:28

A lying tongue hates those crushed by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Proverbs 30:13

There is a generation whose eyes are so lofty, and whose eyelids are lifted up disdainfully.

Isaiah 2:11

Proud men will be brought low, arrogant men will be humiliated; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 3:9

The look on their faces testifies to their guilt; like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. Too bad for them! For they bring disaster on themselves.

Isaiah 3:16

The Lord says, "The women of Zion are proud. They walk with their heads high and flirt with their eyes. They skip along and the jewelry on their ankles jingles.

Isaiah 59:3-7

For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with sin; your lips speak lies, your tongue utters malicious words.

Deuteronomy 27:25

Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.' Then all the people will say, 'Amen!'

2 Kings 24:4

Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the Lord was unwilling to forgive them.

Psalm 5:6

You destroy liars; the Lord despises violent and deceitful people.

Psalm 10:4

The wicked man is so arrogant he always thinks, "God won't hold me accountable; he doesn't care."

Psalm 31:18

May lying lips be silenced -- lips that speak defiantly against the innocent with arrogance and contempt!

Psalm 73:6-8

Arrogance is their necklace, and violence their clothing.

Psalm 120:2-3

I said, "O Lord, rescue me from those who lie with their lips and those who deceive with their tongue.

Psalm 131:1

A song of ascents, by David. O Lord, my heart is not proud, nor do I have a haughty look. I do not have great aspirations, or concern myself with things that are beyond me.

Proverbs 17:7

Excessive speech is not becoming for a fool; how much less are lies for a ruler!

Hosea 4:1-2

Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites! For the Lord has a covenant lawsuit against the people of Israel. For there is neither faithfulness nor loyalty in the land, nor do they acknowledge God.

John 8:44

You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

1 Peter 5:5

In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!