Psalm 52:2

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Psalm 52:2

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.

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Thou give thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frames deceit.

Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, from the tumult of the workers of iniquity,

[and men] who devise mischievous things in their heart. They gather themselves continually together for war.

There are six things which LORD hates, yea, seven which are an abomination to him:

There is a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw teeth, knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

And they bend their tongue--their bow--for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD.

Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah. For the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not gi

Now the chief priests and the elders and the whole council sought FALSE testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death,

Then they instigated men who said, We have heard him speaking blasphemous sayings against Moses and God.

And after five days Ananias the high priest came down with the elders, and a certain orator, Tertullus, who appeared to the governor against Paul.

And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, Now it came to pass, the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ. Because the accuser of our brothers was cast out, who accuses them before

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My soul is among lions. I lay among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Behold, they belch out with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, for [they say], Who hears?

There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.

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for they have opened against me the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

But we have renounced the covert things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor misrepresenting the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.

For such men are FALSE apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves into apostles of Christ.

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A man who bears FALSE witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

If a ruler hearkens to falsehood, all his servants are wicked.

And he said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city,

who, having come near to the chief priests and the elders, said, We have put ourselves under a curse, a curse to taste of nothing until we would kill Paul.