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.

General references

Bible References

Inward

Psalm 51:6
Lo, truth Thou hast desired in the inward parts, And in the hidden part Wisdom Thou causest me to know.
Psalm 58:2
Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.
Psalm 62:4
Only -- from his excellency They have consulted to drive away, They enjoy a lie, with their mouth they bless, And with their heart revile. Selah.
Jeremiah 4:14
Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?
Jeremiah 17:9
Crooked is the heart above all things, And it is incurable -- who doth know it?
Mark 7:21
for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,
Luke 11:39
And the Lord said unto him, 'Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;

Throat

Luke 11:44
'Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above have not known.'
Romans 3:13
A sepulchre opened is their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps is under their lips.

They

Psalm 12:2
Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.
Job 32:21
Let me not, I pray you, accept the face of any, Nor unto man give flattering titles,
Proverbs 29:5
A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God is witness!)

General references

Jeremiah 5:16
Its quiver is as an open sepulchre, All of them -- mighty ones.