Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Throat
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Bible References
Inward
Psalm 51:6
Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts; and in the hidden part You shall make me to know wisdom.
Psalm 58:2
Yes, in heart you work the evil, you weigh the violence of your hands in the land.
Psalm 62:4
Surely they have plotted to cast him down from his great height; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse in their heart. Selah.
Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, cleanse your heart from evil so that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?
Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Luke 11:39
And the Lord said to him, Now you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the platter clean, but your inward part is full of plunder and wickedness.
Throat
Luke 11:44
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like unseen tombs and the men walking above are not aware of them.
Romans 3:13
"Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips;
They
Psalm 12:2
They speak vanity each one with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
Job 32:21
I will not now lift up the face of a man, nor eulogize any man,
Proverbs 29:5
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor with pretense of covetousness; God is witness.
General references
Jeremiah 5:16
Their quiver is as an open grave; they are all mighty men.