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Bible in Basic English

Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

New American Standard Bible

They speak falsehood to one another;
With flattering lips and with a double heart they speak.

King James Version

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

Holman Bible

They lie to one another;
they speak with flattering lips and deceptive hearts.

International Standard Version

Everyone speaks lies to his neighbor; they speak with flattering lips and hidden motives.

A Conservative Version

They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak.

American Standard Version

They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

Amplified


They speak deceitful and worthless words to one another;
With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

Darby Translation

They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour: with flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak.

Julia Smith Translation

They will speak vanity each with his neighbor: smooth lips, with a heart and a heart will they speak

King James 2000

They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

Lexham Expanded Bible

They speak falseness {to each other}. [With] flattering lips, [with] {a double heart} they speak.

Modern King James verseion

They speak vanity each one with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

They talk of vanity every one with his neighbour; they do but flatter with their lips, and dissemble in their double heart.

NET Bible

People lie to one another; they flatter and deceive.

New Heart English Bible

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

The Emphasized Bible

Deception, speak they, every one with his neighbour, - with lips uttering smooth things - with a heart and a heart, do they speak.

Webster

They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

World English Bible

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

Youngs Literal Translation

Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Oppression By The Wicked

1 Send help, Lord, for mercy has come to an end; there is no more faith among the children of men. 2 Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit. 3 The smooth lips and the tongue of pride will be cut off by the Lord.


Cross References

Psalm 41:6

If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.

Romans 16:18

For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.

Psalm 10:7

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

Jeremiah 9:8

His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.

1 Chronicles 12:33

Of Zebulun, there were fifty thousand men, who went out with the army, expert in ordering the fight, to give help with all sorts of arms; true-hearted men.

Psalm 5:9

For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

Psalm 28:3

Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

James 1:8

For there is a division in his mind, and he is uncertain in all his ways.

Psalm 36:3-4

In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

Psalm 52:1-4

Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?

Psalm 55:21

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords.

Psalm 59:12

Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

Psalm 62:4

Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)

Proverbs 20:19

He who goes about talking of the business of others gives away secrets: so have nothing to do with him whose lips are open wide.

Proverbs 29:5

A man who says smooth things to his neighbour is stretching out a net for his steps.

Jeremiah 9:2-6

If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.

Ezekiel 12:24

For there will be no more false visions or smooth use of secret arts in Israel.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,

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