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Romans 3:13
Their throat is an open grave; they deceive with their tongues. Vipers’ venom is under their lips.
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Psalms 62:4
They only plan to bring him down from his high position. They take pleasure in lying; they bless with their mouths, but they curse inwardly. Selah
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Micah 6:12
For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; the tongues in their mouths are deceitful.
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Psalms 51:6
Surely you desire integrity in the inner self, and you teach me wisdom deep within.
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Jeremiah 9:3-6
They bent their tongues like their bows; lies and not faithfulness prevail in the land, for they proceed from one evil to another, and they do not take me into account. This is the LORD’s declaration.Everyone has to be on guard against his friend. Don’t trust any brother, for every brother will certainly deceive, and every friend spread slander.Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to speak lies; they wear themselves out doing wrong.You live in a world of deception. In their deception they refuse to know me. This is the LORD’s declaration.
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Psalms 52:2
Like a sharpened razor, your tongue devises destruction, working treachery.
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Proverbs 29:5
A person who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
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Luke 11:44
“ Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves; the people who walk over them don’t know it.”
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Psalms 36:1-4
An oracle within my heart concerning the transgression of the wicked person: Dread of God has no effect on him.For with his flattering opinion of himself, he does not discover and hate his iniquity.The words from his mouth are malicious and deceptive; he has stopped acting wisely and doing good.Even on his bed he makes malicious plans. He sets himself on a path that is not good, and he does not reject evil.
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Romans 1:29-31
They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,senseless, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful.
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Psalms 62:9
Common people are only a vapor; important people, an illusion. Together on a scale, they weigh less than a vapor.
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Job 32:21-22
I will be partial to no one, and I will not give anyone an undeserved title.For I do not know how to give such titles; otherwise, my Maker would remove me in an instant.
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Psalms 64:6
They devise crimes and say,“ We have perfected a secret plan.” The inner man and the heart are mysterious.
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Psalms 12:2-3
They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and deceptive hearts.May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and the tongue that speaks boastfully.
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Psalms 58:2-3
No, you practice injustice in your hearts; with your hands you weigh out violence in the land.The wicked go astray from the womb; liars wander about from birth.
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Psalms 111:1-3
Hallelujah! I will praise the LORD with all my heart in the assembly of the upright and in the congregation.The LORD’s works are great, studied by all who delight in them.All that he does is splendid and majestic; his righteousness endures forever.
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1 Thessalonians 2 5
For we never used flattering speech, as you know, or had greedy motives— God is our witness—
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Luke 11:39
But the Lord said to him,“ Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and evil.
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Mark 7:21-22
For from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, self-indulgence, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.
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Jeremiah 4:14
Wash the evil from your heart, Jerusalem, so that you will be delivered. How long will you harbor malicious thoughts?
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Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable— who can understand it?