Psalms 12:2
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
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Psalms 12:2
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
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Genesis 34:13
The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
1 Samuel 17:25
The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. The king will give great riches to the man who kills him, and will give him his daughter, and will make his father’s house tax-free in Israel.”
1 Samuel 18:17
Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”
1 Samuel 18:21
Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall today be my son-in-law.”
2 Samuel 13:24
Absalom came to the king and said, “See now, your servant has sheep shearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant.”
2 Samuel 13:27
But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king’s sons go with him.
2 Samuel 13:28
Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”
Proverbs 26:26
His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
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Numbers 16:3
They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”
2 Samuel 15:3
Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”
2 Samuel 15:5
It was so, that when any man came near to bow down to him, he stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and kissed him.
Proverbs 27:14
He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.
Daniel 11:21
“In his place a contemptible person will stand up, to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom; but he will come in time of security, and will obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
2 Peter 2:10
but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries,
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Numbers 16:13
Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?
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Numbers 16:14
Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up.”
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Deuteronomy 25:13
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.
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Judges 8:18
Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?” They answered, “They were like you. They all resembled the children of a king.”
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Judges 16:6
Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”
Judges 16:16
When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death.
Judges 16:17
He told her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”
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1 Samuel 16:4
Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, “Do you come peaceably?”
2 Samuel 3:20
So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast.
2 Samuel 3:21
Abner said to David, “I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your soul desires.” David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
2 Samuel 3:22
Behold, David’s servants and Joab came from a raid and brought in a great plunder with them; but Abner was not with David in Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.
2 Samuel 3:23
When Joab and all the army who was with him had come, they told Joab, “Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he has gone in peace.”
2 Samuel 3:24
Then Joab came to the king and said, “What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, and he is already gone?
2 Samuel 3:25
You know Abner the son of Ner. He came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.”
1 Kings 2:13
Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, “Do you come peaceably?” He said, “Peaceably.
2 Kings 9:22
When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?”
1 Chronicles 12:17
David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.”
1 Chronicles 12:38
All these were men of war who could order the battle array, and came with a perfect heart to Hebron to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
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1 Samuel 19:6
Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan; and Saul swore, “As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.”
1 Samuel 19:7
Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as before.
1 Samuel 26:21
Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes today. Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.”
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2 Samuel 11:9
But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his house.
2 Samuel 11:10
When they had told David, saying, “Uriah didn’t go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you come from a journey? Why didn’t you go down to your house?”
2 Samuel 11:11
Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!”
2 Samuel 11:12
David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next day.
2 Samuel 11:13
When David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house.
2 Samuel 11:14
In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
2 Samuel 11:15
He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck and die.”
Jeremiah 41:2
Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah arose, and the ten men who were with him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.
Jeremiah 41:6
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went, and as he met them, he said to them, “Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.”
Jeremiah 41:7
It was so, when they came into the middle of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the middle of the pit, he, and the men who were with him.
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2 Samuel 14:17
Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’ ”
2 Samuel 14:18
Then the king answered the woman, “Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask you.” The woman said, “Let my lord the king now speak.”
2 Samuel 14:19
The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant.
2 Samuel 14:20
Your servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”
2 Samuel 14:21
The king said to Joab, “Behold now, I have granted this thing. Go therefore, and bring the young man Absalom back.”
2 Samuel 14:22
Joab fell to the ground on his face, showed respect, and blessed the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, O king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.”
2 Samuel 14:23
So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 14:24
The king said, “Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn’t see the king’s face.
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1 Kings 22:10
Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
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1 Kings 22:30
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into the battle, but you put on your robes.” The king of Israel disguised himself and went into the battle.
2 Chronicles 18:29
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went into the battle.
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Job 8:13
So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,
Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
Job 35:13
Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Job 36:13
“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.
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Psalms 4:2
You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood? Selah.
Psalms 44:20
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god,
Psalms 44:21
won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Proverbs 12:11
He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
Jeremiah 2:5
Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?
Romans 1:21
Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
Ephesians 4:17
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
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Psalms 12:7
You will keep them, Yahweh. You will preserve them from this generation forever.
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Psalms 12:8
The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.
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Psalms 10:3
For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.
Psalms 14:1
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.
Psalms 31:18
Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
Psalms 52:3
You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
Psalms 52:4
You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Romans 3:14
“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
James 3:5
So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
James 3:7
For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;
James 3:8
but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
Revelation 21:8
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
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Job 15:35
They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”
Psalms 37:32
The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.
Psalms 38:12
They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
Psalms 64:5
They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”
Psalms 64:6
They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.
Psalms 109:2
for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
Psalms 109:3
They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
Psalms 140:2
those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Isaiah 59:5
They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
Matthew 26:4
They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him.
Acts 23:15
Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”
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Psalms 45:4
In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds.
Psalms 60:4
You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
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Psalms 63:1
God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
Psalms 63:2
So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.
Psalms 63:3
Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
Psalms 63:4
So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.
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Psalms 77:9
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?” Selah.
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Psalms 86:11
Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.
Isaiah 24:10
The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Ezekiel 11:19
I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh,
Joel 2:12
“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”
Matthew 6:22
“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.
Luke 12:29
“Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
James 4:8
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
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Proverbs 6:26
For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.
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Psalms 119:113
I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.
Proverbs 21:6
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Proverbs 30:8
Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me,
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Proverbs 11:24
There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
Proverbs 11:25
The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
Proverbs 19:17
He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
Proverbs 22:9
He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.
Proverbs 23:6
Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies,
Proverbs 23:8
You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
Isaiah 58:9
Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;
2 Corinthians 9:6
Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
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Isaiah 10:20
It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
Isaiah 38:3
and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Isaiah 48:1
“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—
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Psalms 58:2
No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Psalms 140:1
Deliver me, Yahweh, from evil men. Preserve me from violent men:
Proverbs 12:17
He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.
Proverbs 12:20
Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.
Isaiah 59:6
Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Isaiah 59:13
transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Jeremiah 5:3
O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
Jeremiah 7:28
You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to Yahweh their God’s voice, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.’
Jeremiah 42:20
For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God says, so declare to us, and we will do it.’
Ezekiel 33:30
“As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk about you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak to one another, everyone to his brother, saying, ‘Please come and hear what the word is that comes out from Yahweh.’
Hosea 4:1
Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel, for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
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Jeremiah 9:7
Therefore Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?
Jeremiah 9:9
Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?
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Daniel 6:5
Then these men said, “We won’t find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.”
Daniel 6:6
Then these presidents and local governors assembled together to the king, and said this to him, “King Darius, live forever!
Daniel 6:8
Now, O king, establish the decree and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”
Daniel 6:9
Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
Daniel 6:10
When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
Daniel 6:11
Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
Daniel 6:12
Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king’s decree: “Haven’t you signed a decree that every man who makes a petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?” The king answered, “This thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”
Acts 23:20
He said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.
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Amos 8:5
saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
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Psalms 36:2
For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.
Psalms 41:7
All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
Proverbs 12:5
The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
Matthew 2:3
When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
Matthew 2:4
Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.
Matthew 2:5
They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for this is written through the prophet,
Matthew 2:6
‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the princes of Judah; for out of you shall come a governor who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’ ”
Matthew 2:7
Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them exactly what time the star appeared.
Matthew 2:8
He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.”
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
2 Corinthians 4:2
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
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Psalms 55:11
Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets.
Micah 7:6
For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
Matthew 10:17
But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.
Matthew 10:21
“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.
Matthew 10:34
“Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:35
For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
Luke 21:16
You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.
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Matthew 22:35
One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.
Luke 11:37
Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in and sat at the table.
Luke 11:38
When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.
Luke 11:39
The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
Luke 11:40
You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?
Luke 11:41
But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
Luke 11:42
But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
Luke 11:43
Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.
Luke 11:44
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”
Luke 11:45
One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”
Luke 11:46
He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.
Luke 11:47
Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
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Matthew 26:49
Immediately he came to Jesus, and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” and kissed him.
Matthew 26:50
Jesus said to him, “Friend, why are you here?” Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.
Mark 14:45
When he had come, immediately he came to him and said, “Rabbi! Rabbi!” and kissed him.
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Mark 12:30
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.
Luke 11:48
So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.
Luke 11:49
Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,
Luke 11:50
that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,
Luke 11:51
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.
Luke 11:52
Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”
Luke 11:53
As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him,
Luke 11:54
lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.
Luke 20:19
The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.
Luke 20:20
They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
John 3:2
He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”
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Acts 12:22
The people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”
Acts 14:10
said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet!” He leaped up and walked.
Acts 14:11
When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”
Acts 14:12
They called Barnabas “Jupiter”, and Paul “Mercury”, because he was the chief speaker.
Acts 14:13
The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes.
Revelation 13:4
They worshiped the dragon because he gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”
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Acts 24:26
Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more often and talked with him.
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Acts 24:27
But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.
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Nehemiah 6:10
I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let’s shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night they will come to kill you.”
Isaiah 30:10
who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
Ezekiel 12:24
For there will be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
Micah 3:5
Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray—for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:
Zechariah 10:2
For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.
Romans 16:18
For those who are such don’t serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
Galatians 1:10
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
1 Timothy 3:8
Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,
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Psalms 59:12
For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.
Psalms 64:8
Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.
James 3:9
With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.
James 3:10
Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
2 Peter 2:18
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
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