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Psalms 52:2
Like a sharpened razor, your tongue devises destruction, working treachery.
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Jeremiah 11:19
for I was like a docile lamb led to slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plots against me:“ Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit; let’s cut him off from the land of the living so that his name will no longer be remembered.”
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Psalms 21:11
Though they intend to harm you and devise a wicked plan, they will not prevail.
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Malachi 2:7
For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts.
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Psalms 64:3
who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim bitter words like arrows,
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Proverbs 18:21
Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
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Psalms 57:4
I am surrounded by lions; I lie down with those who devour men. Their teeth are spears and arrows; their tongues are sharp swords.
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Micah 2:1-3
Woe to those who dream up wickedness and prepare evil plans on their beds! At morning light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.They covet fields and seize them; they also take houses. They deprive a man of his home, a person of his inheritance.Therefore, the Lord says: I am now planning a disaster against this nation; you cannot free your necks from it. Then you will not walk so proudly because it will be an evil time.
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Jeremiah 2:8
The priests quit asking,“ Where is the Lord?” The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the rulers rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.
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2 Samuel 17 14
Since the Lord had decreed that Ahithophel’s good advice be undermined in order to bring about Absalom’s ruin, Absalom and all the men of Israel said,“ The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than Ahithophel’s advice.”
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Jeremiah 13:13-14
And you will say to them: This is what the Lord says: I am about to fill all who live in this land— the kings who reign for David on his throne, the priests, the prophets and all the residents of Jerusalem— with drunkenness.I will smash them against each other, fathers and sons alike”— this is the Lord’s declaration.“ I will allow no mercy, pity, or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.”
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Job 5:13
He traps the wise in their craftiness so that the plans of the deceptive are quickly brought to an end.
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Jeremiah 18:11
So now, say to the men of Judah and to the residents of Jerusalem: This is what the Lord says: I am about to bring harm to you and make plans against you. Turn now, each from your evil way, and correct your ways and your deeds.
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1 Kings 22 24
Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah came up, hit Micaiah in the face, and demanded,“ Did the Spirit of the Lord leave me to speak to you?”
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Isaiah 32:7
The scoundrel’s weapons are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the needy with lies, even when the poor says what is right.
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Jeremiah 43:2
then Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the other arrogant men responded to Jeremiah,“ You are speaking a lie! The Lord our God has not sent you to say,‘ You must not go to Egypt to live there for a while!’
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2 Samuel 15 31
Then someone reported to David:“ Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.”“ Lord,” David pleaded,“ please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”
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Leviticus 10:11
and teach the Israelites all the statutes that the Lord has given to them through Moses.”
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Jeremiah 14:14-16
But the Lord said to me,“ These prophets are prophesying a lie in My name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, worthless divination, the deceit of their own minds.“ Therefore, this is what the Lord says concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, though I did not send them, and who say,‘ There will never be sword or famine in this land.’ By sword and famine these prophets will meet their end.The people they are prophesying to will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. There will be no one to bury them— they, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. I will pour out their own evil on them.”
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Jeremiah 5:12-13
They have contradicted the Lord and insisted,“ It won’t happen. Harm won’t come to us; we won’t see sword or famine.”The prophets become only wind, for the Lord’s word is not in them. This will in fact happen to them.
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Luke 11:45
One of the experts in the law answered Him,“ Teacher, when You say these things You insult us too.”
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Jeremiah 29:25-29
“ This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: You in your own name have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests, saying:‘ The Lord has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada the priest to be the chief officer in the temple of the Lord, responsible for every madman who acts like a prophet. You must confine him in the stocks and an iron collar.So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth who has been acting like a prophet among you?For he has sent word to us in Babylon, claiming,“ The exile will be long. Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat their produce.”’”Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.
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John 7:47-49
Then the Pharisees responded to them:“ Are you fooled too?Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?But this crowd, which doesn’t know the law, is accursed!”
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John 9:40
Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and asked Him,“ We aren’t blind too, are we?”
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Jeremiah 44:17
Instead, we will do everything we said we would: burn incense to the queen of heaven and offer drink offerings to her just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in Judah’s cities and in Jerusalem’s streets. Then we had enough food and good things and saw no disaster,
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Jeremiah 26:11
Then the priests and prophets said to the officials and all the people,“ This man deserves the death sentence because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”