Proverbs 17:4

Proverbs 17:4
An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

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Exodus 20:16
“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Exodus 23:7
“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

2 Samuel 16:3
The king said, “Where is your master’s son?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.’ ”

2 Samuel 19:27
He has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Therefore do what is good in your eyes.

Psalms 15:3
he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

Psalms 120:3
What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

Proverbs 10:18
He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

Jeremiah 20:10
For I have heard the defaming of many: “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

Matthew 28:14
If this comes to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him and make you free of worry.”

Matthew 28:15
So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continues until today.

Romans 3:8
Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let’s do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.

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1 Samuel 17:28
Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the evil of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”

Jeremiah 24:2
One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

Jeremiah 24:8
“ ‘As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely Yahweh says, ‘So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.

Jeremiah 24:9
I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I will drive them.

Jeremiah 24:10
I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’ ”

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1 Samuel 24:9
David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

1 Samuel 26:19
Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’

Psalms 141:6
Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.

Proverbs 16:28
A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

Proverbs 18:8
The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

Proverbs 26:20
For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

Proverbs 26:21
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

Proverbs 26:22
The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.

Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

Ecclesiastes 7:21
Also don’t take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;

Ecclesiastes 7:22
for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.

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.

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1 Kings 22:6
Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?” They said, “Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

Isaiah 30:9
For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;

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.

Isaiah 30:11
Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”

Jeremiah 5:30
“An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.

Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

Micah 2:11
If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies, saying, “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink,” he would be the prophet of this people.

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Psalms 36:4
He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

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 52:4
You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

Psalms 55:11
Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets.

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;

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Proverbs 17:6
Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children is their parents.

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Proverbs 17:11
An evil man seeks only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

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Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 17:19
He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

Proverbs 17:20
One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

Proverbs 17:26
Also to punish the righteous is not good, nor to flog officials for their integrity.

Proverbs 24:27
Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

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Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

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Isaiah 13:16
Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

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