Psalm 52:2

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Psalm 52:2

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

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"You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the throng of evildoers,

who plan evil things in their heart and stir up wars continually.

There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him:

There are those whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mankind.

They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the LORD.

Then they said, "Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words."

Now the chief priests and the whole Councilwere seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death,

Then they secretly instigated men who said, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."

And after five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a spokesman, one Tertullus. They laid before the governor their case against Paul.

And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.

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My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts-- the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

There they are, bellowing with their mouths with swords in their lips-- for "Who," they think,"will hear us?"

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

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For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.

Deliver me, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

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A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.

If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked.

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

They went to the chief priests and elders and said, "We have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul