¹⁶ Jehovah hates these six things: Yes, seven are an abomination to him: ¹⁷ Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
And hands that shed innocent blood,
¹⁸ A heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run quickly to badness,

Phrases

Innocent Blood

Lifted Up

Shed Innocent Blood

Cross References

Proverbs 12:22

Lying lips are an abomination to Jehovah. Those who deal truly are his delight.

Isaiah 1:15

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen because your hands are full of blood.

Psalm 101:5

I will destroy anyone who secretly slanders his neighbor. I will not tolerate anyone with a conceited look or arrogant heart.

Deuteronomy 19:10

Innocent blood will not be shed in your land that Jehovah your God gives you as an inheritance. Blood guiltiness will not be on you.

Psalm 18:27

You save humble people, but you humiliate the proud.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say: Come with us. Let us lie in wait to kill someone. Let us ambush the innocent without cause.

Proverbs 14:5

A faithful witness will not lie, but a false witness utters lies.

Proverbs 21:4

Haughty eyes and a proud heart, and the arrogance and pride produced by the wicked are sin.

Proverbs 26:28

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

Proverbs 30:13

There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

Isaiah 2:11

The arrogant people will be humbled. High and mighty people will be brought down. On that day Jehovah alone will be exalted.

Isaiah 3:9

The expression on their faces will be held against them. They boast about their sins! They are like those of the people of Sodom. They do not even bother to hide them. How horrible it will be for these people. They have brought disaster on themselves.

Isaiah 3:16

Jehovah also said: Because the daughters of Zion are proud and walk with heads held high and seductive eyes, and go along with mincing steps and tinkle the bangles on their feet,

Isaiah 59:3-7

Your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers are desecrated with sin. You speak lies, and you mutter wicked things.

Deuteronomy 27:25

Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to punish an innocent person.' All the people will say: 'Amen.'

2 Kings 24:4

and especially because of all the innocent people he killed. Jehovah would not forgive Manasseh for that.

Psalm 5:6

You destroy those who speak falsehood. Jehovah abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.

Psalm 10:4

In his arrogant attitude he does not search for God. His faulty reasoning concludes: There is no God.

Psalm 31:18

Let their lying lips be speechless, since they speak against righteous people with arrogance and contempt.

Psalm 73:6-8

That is why arrogance is their necklace and violence covers them like clothing.

Psalm 120:2-3

O Jehovah, rescue me from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue.

Psalm 131:1

([Psalm of David]) O Jehovah, my heart is not proud, my eyes are not haughty. I do not involve myself in great matters. I do not get involved in things too difficult for me.

Proverbs 17:7

Excellent speech does not fit a fool; much less do lying lips a prince.

Hosea 4:1-2

Hear the word of Jehovah, you children of Israel! For Jehovah has a legal case against the inhabitants of the land. There is no truth! There is no goodness. There is no knowledge of God in the land.

John 8:44

You are from your father [Satan] the Devil (slanderer) (false accuser)! You want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. He does not stand for the truth. There is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks his own lies. He is a liar and the father of the lie!

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise, you younger men, be subject to the older men. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility and serve one another. God resists the proud, but gives loving kindness to the humble.

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs (impure men) and those who practice spiritism, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and everyone who tells lies.'