Psalm 109:2

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me;
They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Psalm 52:4

You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.

2 Samuel 15:3-8

Then Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but there is no man appointed as the king’s agent to listen to you.”

2 Samuel 17:1

Then, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Please let me choose 12,000 men, and I will set out and pursue David tonight.

Psalm 31:13

For I have heard the slander and whispering of many,
Terror is on every side;
While they schemed together against me,
They plotted to take away my life.

Psalm 31:18

Let the lying lips be mute,
Which speak insolently and arrogantly against the [consistently] righteous
With pride and contempt.

Psalm 64:3-4

Who have sharpened their tongues like a sword.
They aim venomous words as arrows,

Psalm 120:2-3

Rescue my soul, O Lord, from lying lips,
And from a deceitful tongue.

Psalm 140:3

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

Proverbs 6:17

A proud look [the attitude that makes one overestimate oneself and discount others], a lying tongue,
And hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 12:19

Truthful lips will be established forever,
But a lying tongue is [credited] only for a moment.

Proverbs 15:28

The heart of the righteous thinks carefully about how to answer [in a wise and appropriate and timely way],
But the [babbling] mouth of the wicked pours out malevolent things.

“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.

Jeremiah 9:5

“Everyone deceives and mocks his neighbor
And does not speak the truth.
They have taught their tongue to speak lies;
They exhaust themselves with sin and cruelty.

Matthew 26:59-62

Now the chief priests and the whole Council (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court) tried to get false witnesses to testify against Jesus, so that they might [have a reason to] put Him to death.

Acts 6:13

They presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and the Law [of Moses];

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