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Micah 6:12
Your rich people are violent; your inhabitants are liars and their tongues speak deceitfully. (niv)
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Job 15:5
Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty. (niv)
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Genesis 19:11
Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door. (niv)
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Micah 6:3
“ My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me. (niv)
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Isaiah 59:13-15
rebellion and treachery against the Lord, turning our backs on our God, inciting revolt and oppression, uttering lies our hearts have conceived.So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter.Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey. The Lord looked and was displeased that there was no justice. (niv)
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Isaiah 57:10
You wearied yourself by such going about, but you would not say,‘ It is hopeless.’ You found renewal of your strength, and so you did not faint. (niv)
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1 Timothy 4 2
Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. (niv)
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Psalms 64:3
They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim cruel words like deadly arrows. (niv)
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Isaiah 44:12-14
The blacksmith takes a tool and works with it in the coals; he shapes an idol with hammers, he forges it with the might of his arm. He gets hungry and loses his strength; he drinks no water and grows faint.The carpenter measures with a line and makes an outline with a marker; he roughs it out with chisels and marks it with compasses. He shapes it in human form, human form in all its glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.He cut down cedars, or perhaps took a cypress or oak. He let it grow among the trees of the forest, or planted a pine, and the rain made it grow. (niv)
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Ezekiel 24:12
It has frustrated all efforts; its heavy deposit has not been removed, not even by fire. (niv)
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Jeremiah 9:3
“ They make ready their tongue like a bow, to shoot lies; it is not by truth that they triumph in the land. They go from one sin to another; they do not acknowledge me,” declares the Lord. (niv)
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Isaiah 41:6-7
they help each other and say to their companions,“ Be strong!”The metalworker encourages the goldsmith, and the one who smooths with the hammer spurs on the one who strikes the anvil. One says of the welding,“ It is good.” The other nails down the idol so it will not topple. (niv)
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Psalms 50:19
You use your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit. (niv)
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Proverbs 4:16
For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble. (niv)
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Psalms 140:3
They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent’s; the poison of vipers is on their lips. (niv)
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Job 11:3
Will your idle talk reduce others to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock? (niv)
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Ephesians 4:25
Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body. (niv)
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Psalms 7:14
Whoever is pregnant with evil conceives trouble and gives birth to disillusionment. (niv)
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Habakkuk 2:13
Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing? (niv)
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Isaiah 5:18
Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit, and wickedness as with cart ropes, (niv)
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Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully. With their mouths they all speak cordially to their neighbors, but in their hearts they set traps for them. (niv)