Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.
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Bible References
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Psalm 50:19
You let your mouth speak evil. Your tongue plans deceit.
Psalm 64:2
Keep me safe from secret plots of corrupt evildoers.
Psalm 140:2
They plan evil things in their hearts. They start conflicts (fights) (wars) every day.
Proverbs 6:16
Jehovah hates these six things: Yes, seven are an abomination to him:
Proverbs 30:14
There is a generation, whose teeth are like swords, and their jaw teeth like knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Jeremiah 9:3
They bend their tongue like their bow. Lies and not truth prevail in the land. They move from evil to evil. They do not know me, says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said: Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise man, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike him with our tongue, and let us pay no attention to any of his words.
Matthew 26:59
The chief priests and all the Sanhedrin were looking for false witness against Jesus. They wanted to put him to death.
Acts 6:11
They secretly induced me to say: We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
Acts 24:1
After five days Ananias the high priest came down with the elders. They brought an orator, Tertullus, who made a statement to the governor against Paul.
Revelation 12:10
I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now has come the salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power (authority) of his Christ: for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accused them before our God day and night.
Like
Psalm 57:4
I am among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows. Their tongue is a sharp sword.
Psalm 59:7
See what pours out of their mouths, swords from their lips! They think: Who will hear us?
Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword. The tongue of the wise brings a cure.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Those who love it will eat the fruit.
Working
Psalm 109:2
Wicked and deceitful people have opened their mouths against me. They speak against me with lying tongues.
Psalm 120:2
O Jehovah, rescue me from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue.
2 Corinthians 4:2
We have renounced the hidden things of shame. And we do not walk in craftiness and deceit. We do not adulterate the word of God. But by the manifestation of the truth we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.
General references
Proverbs 25:18
A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler listens to lies, all his servants are wicked.
Ezekiel 11:2
Jehovah said to me: Son of man, these are the men who plan evil and give bad advice in this city (Jerusalem).
Acts 23:14
They went to the chief priests and elders and said: We have united with a great oath that we will eat nothing until we have killed Paul.