Psalm 52:2

God Judges The Proud

¹ Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day. ² Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.
³ You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah

All Day Long

Devises Evil

Psalm 57:4

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.

Psalm 50:19

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

Psalm 59:7

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

Psalm 64:2-6

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

Psalm 109:2

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

Psalm 120:2

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

Psalm 140:2-3

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

Proverbs 6:16-19

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

Proverbs 12:18

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

Proverbs 18:21

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

Proverbs 30:14

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

Jeremiah 9:3-4

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.

Jeremiah 18:18

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."

Matthew 26:59

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

Acts 6:11-13

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

Acts 24:1

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.

Acts 24:5

For we have found this man a plague, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world and is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

2 Corinthians 4:2

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.

2 Corinthians 11:13

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

Revelation 12:10

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.