Psalm 52:2

God Judges The Proud

¹ Why do you boast about evil, O mighty man? The loyal love of God [endures] {continually}. ² Your tongue plans destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit. ³ You love evil more than good, a lie more than speaking {what is right}. Selah

All Day Long

Devises Evil

Psalm 57:4

My soul [is] among lions. I lie down [among those who] devour-- the children of humankind whose teeth [are] spears and arrows and whose tongues [are] sharp swords.

Psalm 50:19

You give your mouth free rein for evil, and you harness your tongue to deceit.

Psalm 59:7

Look, they pour out [talk] with their mouth. Swords [are] on their lips, for [they say], "Who hears?"

Psalm 64:2-6

Hide me from [the] secret plots of evildoers, from [the] unrest of [those who] do iniquity,

Psalm 109:2

for {wicked and deceitful mouths} have opened against me. They speak to me with a lying tongue.

Psalm 120:2

"Deliver my life, O Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue."

Psalm 140:2-3

who plan evil [things] in [their] heart. They stir up wars continually.

Proverbs 6:16-19

There are six [things] Yahweh hates, and seven [things are] abominations of his soul:

Proverbs 12:18

There is one who speaks rashly, like the thrust of a sword, 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 her will eat of her fruit.

Proverbs 30:14

[There is] a generation whose teeth [are] swords, and its jawbones, knives, [in order] to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from humankind.

Jeremiah 9:3-4

And they bend their tongue [like] their bow, [for] falsehood and not truth is superior in the land, for they go forth from evil to evil, and they do not know me," {declares} Yahweh.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, "Come and let us plan plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will not be lost from [the] priest, nor advice from [the] wise man, nor [the] word from [the] prophet. Come and {let us bring charges against him}, and let us not listen attentively to any of his words."

Matthew 26:59

Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false testimony against Jesus in order that they could put him to death.

Acts 6:11-13

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

Acts 24:1

And after five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and an attorney, a certain Tertullus, all of whom brought charges against Paul to the governor.

Acts 24:5

For we have found this man [to be] a public menace and one who causes riots among all the Jews throughout the Roman Empire and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,

2 Corinthians 4:2

but we have renounced shameful hidden things, not behaving with craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but with the open proclamation of the truth commending ourselves to every person's conscience before God.

2 Corinthians 11:13

For such people [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, 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, because the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, the one who accuses them before our God day and night.