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Romans 3:13
“ Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.”“ The poison of vipers is on their lips.” (niv)
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Psalms 62:4
Surely they intend to topple me from my lofty place; they take delight in lies. With their mouths they bless, but in their hearts they curse. (niv)
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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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Psalms 51:6
Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place. (niv)
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Jeremiah 9:3-6
“ 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.“ Beware of your friends; do not trust anyone in your clan. For every one of them is a deceiver, and every friend a slanderer.Friend deceives friend, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning.You live in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,” declares the Lord. (niv)
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Psalms 52:2
You who practice deceit, your tongue plots destruction; it is like a sharpened razor. (niv)
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Proverbs 29:5
Those who flatter their neighbors are spreading nets for their feet. (niv)
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Luke 11:44
“ Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, which people walk over without knowing it.” (niv)
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Psalms 36:1-4
I have a message from God in my heart concerning the sinfulness of the wicked: There is no fear of God before their eyes.In their own eyes they flatter themselves too much to detect or hate their sin.The words of their mouths are wicked and deceitful; they fail to act wisely or do good.Even on their beds they plot evil; they commit themselves to a sinful course and do not reject what is wrong. (niv)
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Romans 1:29-31
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. (niv)
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Psalms 62:9
Surely the lowborn are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie. If weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath. (niv)
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Job 32:21-22
I will show no partiality, nor will I flatter anyone;for if I were skilled in flattery, my Maker would soon take me away. (niv)
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Psalms 64:6
They plot injustice and say,“ We have devised a perfect plan!” Surely the human mind and heart are cunning. (niv)
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Psalms 12:2-3
Everyone lies to their neighbor; they flatter with their lips but harbor deception in their hearts.May the Lord silence all flattering lips and every boastful tongue— (niv)
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Psalms 58:2-3
No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies. (niv)
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Psalms 111:1-3
Praise the Lord. I will extol the Lord with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly.Great are the works of the Lord; they are pondered by all who delight in them.Glorious and majestic are his deeds, and his righteousness endures forever. (niv)
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1 Thessalonians 2 5
You know we never used flattery, nor did we put on a mask to cover up greed— God is our witness. (niv)
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Luke 11:39
Then the Lord said to him,“ Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. (niv)
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Mark 7:21-22
For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come— sexual immorality, theft, murder,adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. (niv)
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Jeremiah 4:14
Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart and be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts? (niv)
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Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? (niv)