Psalms 120:2
O Lord, be the saviour of my soul from false lips, and from the tongue of deceit.
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Psalms 120:2
O Lord, be the saviour of my soul from false lips, and from the tongue of deceit.
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Genesis 39:14
She sent for the men of her house and said to them, See, he has let a Hebrew come here and make sport of us; he came to my bed, and I gave a loud cry;
Genesis 39:17
Then she gave him the same story, saying, The Hebrew servant whom you have taken into our house came in to make sport of me;
Exodus 20:16
Do not give false witness against your neighbour.
Exodus 23:1
Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.
1 Kings 18:17
And when he saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, Is it you, you troubler of Israel?
1 Kings 21:9
And in the letter she said, Let a time of public sorrow be fixed, and put Naboth at the head of the people;
1 Kings 21:10
And get two good-for-nothing persons to come before him and give witness that he has been cursing God and the king. Then take him out and have him stoned to death.
1 Kings 21:11
So the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority in his town, did as Jezebel had said in the letter she sent them.
1 Kings 21:12
They gave orders for a day of public sorrow, and put Naboth at the head of the people.
1 Kings 21:13
And the two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people, saying, Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death.
Psalms 35:11
False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.
Psalms 55:3
I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.
Proverbs 14:5
A true witness does not say what is false, but a false witness is breathing out deceit.
Matthew 26:59
Now the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin were looking for false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death;
Matthew 26:65
Then the high priest, violently parting his robes, said, He has said evil against God: what more need have we of witnesses? for now his words against God have come to your ears:
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2 Kings 18:19
And the Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, These are the words of the great king, the king of Assyria: In what are you placing your hope?
2 Kings 18:30
And do not let Hezekiah make you put your faith in the Lord, saying, The Lord will certainly keep us safe, and this town will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 18:32
Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens, a land of oil-giving olives and of honey, so that life and not death may be your fate. Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The Lord will keep us safe.
2 Chronicles 32:17
And he sent letters, in addition, to put shame on the Lord, the God of Israel, and to say evil against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not been able to keep their people safe from my hands, no more will the God of Hezekiah keep his people safe from my hands.
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1 Chronicles 12:17
And David went out to them, and said to them, If you have come in peace to give me help, my heart will be united with yours; but if you have come to give me up to those who would take my life, though my hands are clean from wrongdoing, then may the God of our fathers see it and give you punishment.
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Nehemiah 6:3
And I sent men to them saying, I am doing a great work, so that it is not possible for me to come down: is the work to be stopped while I go away from it and come down to you?
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Job 13:7
Will you say in God's name what is not right, and put false words into his mouth?
2 Corinthians 4:2
And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ.
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Psalms 6:4
Come back, O Lord, make my soul free; O give me salvation because of your mercy.
Psalms 86:13
For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.
Psalms 116:8
You have taken my soul from the power of death, keeping my eyes from weeping, and my feet from falling.
Psalms 121:7
The Lord will keep you safe from all evil; he will take care of your soul.
Isaiah 38:17
See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.
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Psalms 17:13
Up! Lord, come out against him, make him low, with your sword be my saviour from the evil-doer.
Psalms 22:20
Make my soul safe from the sword, my life from the power of the dog.
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Nehemiah 6:10
And I went to the house of Shemaiah, the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us have a meeting in the house of God, inside the Temple, and let the doors be shut: for they will come to put you to death; truly, in the night they will come to put you to death.
Psalms 7:14
That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.
Psalms 7:15
He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made
Psalms 7:16
His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.
Psalms 37:12
The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.
Psalms 37:14
The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.
Psalms 52:5
But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)
Psalms 55:23
But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.
Psalms 64:7
But God sends out an arrow against them; suddenly they are wounded.
Psalms 64:8
The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.
Psalms 64:9
And in fear men make public the works of God; and giving thought to his acts they get wisdom.
Psalms 64:10
The upright will be glad in the Lord and have hope in him; and all the lovers of righteousness will give him glory.
Psalms 140:9
As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.
Psalms 140:10
Let burning flames come down on them: let them be put into the fire, and into deep waters, so that they may not get up again.
Psalms 140:11
Let not a man of evil tongue be safe on earth: let destruction overtake the violent man with blow on blow.
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Psalms 63:11
But the king will have joy in God; everyone who takes an oath by him will have cause for pride; but the false mouth will be stopped.
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Psalms 73:9
Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.
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Psalms 119:60
I was quick to do your orders, and let no time be wasted.
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Psalms 119:170
Let my prayer come before you; take me out of trouble, as you have said.
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Psalms 120:5
Sorrow is mine because I am strange in Meshech, and living in the tents of Kedar.
Psalms 120:6
My soul has long been living with the haters of peace.
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Psalms 140:1
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. O Lord, take me out of the power of the evil man; keep me safe from the violent man:
Psalms 140:2
For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.
Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.
Romans 3:13
Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:
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Proverbs 15:4
A comforting tongue is a tree of life, but a twisted tongue is a crushing of the spirit.
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1 Samuel 24:9
And David said to Saul, Why do you give any attention to those who say that it is my desire to do you wrong?
Psalms 109:1
To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm. God of my praise, let my prayer be answered;
Proverbs 25:18
One who gives false witness against his neighbour is a hammer and a sword and a sharp arrow.
Matthew 26:60
And they were not able to get it, though a number of false witnesses came.
Matthew 26:61
But later there came two who said, This man said, I am able to give the Temple of God to destruction, and to put it up again in three days.
Matthew 26:62
And the high priest got up and said to him, Have you no answer? what is it which these say against you?
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Job 15:5
For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.
Psalms 12:4
They have said, With our tongues will we overcome; our lips are ours: who is lord over us?
Psalms 15:3
Whose tongue is not false, who does no evil to his friend, and does not take away the good name of his neighbour;
Psalms 31:20
You will keep them safe in your house from the designs of man; in the secret of your tent will you keep them from angry tongues.
Psalms 50:19
You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.
Psalms 50:20
You say evil of your brother; you make false statements against your mother's son.
Psalms 55:21
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords.
Psalms 64:4
So that in secret they may let loose their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen.
Psalms 140:3
Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)
Proverbs 26:28
A false tongue has hate for those who have clean hearts, and a smooth mouth is a cause of falling.
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.
James 3:5
Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.
James 3:7
For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority;
James 3:8
But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.
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Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.
Isaiah 59:4
No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
Isaiah 59:5
They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake.
Isaiah 59:13
We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.
Isaiah 59:14
And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.
Isaiah 59:15
Yes, faith is gone; and he whose heart is turned from evil comes into the power of the cruel: and the Lord saw it, and he was angry that there was no one to take up their cause.
Jeremiah 9:4
Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.
Jeremiah 9:6
There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.
Hosea 4:1
Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.
Hosea 4:2
There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.
Micah 7:3
Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.
Micah 7:4
The best of them is like a waste plant, and their upright ones are like a wall of thorns. Sorrow! the day of their fate has come; now will trouble come on them.
Micah 7:5
Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.
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Jeremiah 48:10
Let him be cursed who does the Lord's work half-heartedly; let him be cursed who keeps back his sword from blood.
Acts 5:8
And Peter said to her, Give me an answer: was this amount of money the price of the land? And she said, Yes, it was.
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Proverbs 26:23
Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.
Proverbs 26:24
With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;
Proverbs 26:26
Though his hate is covered with deceit, his sin will be seen openly before the meeting of the people.
Jeremiah 42:2
And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let our request come before you, and make prayer for us to the Lord your God, even for this small band of us; for we are only a small band out of what was a great number, as your eyes may see:
Jeremiah 42:3
That the Lord your God may make clear to us the way in which we are to go and what we are to do.
Jeremiah 42:20
For you have been acting with deceit in your hearts; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, Make prayer for us to the Lord our God, and give us word of everything he may say, and we will do it.
Matthew 26:49
And straight away he came to Jesus and said, Master! and gave him a kiss.
Mark 12:14
And when they had come, they said to him, Master, we are certain that you are true, and have no fear of anyone: you have no respect for a man's position, but you are teaching the true way of God: Is it right to give taxes to Caesar or not?
Mark 14:45
And when he had come, he went straight to him and said, Master; and gave him a kiss.
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Revelation 21:27
And nothing unclean may come into it, or anyone whose works are cursed or false; but only those whose names are in the Lamb's book of life.
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Revelation 22:15
Outside are the dogs, and those who make use of evil powers, those who make themselves unclean, and the takers of life, and those who give worship to images, and everyone whose delight is in what is false.
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