Proverbs 6:17

God hates pride, deceitful speech, and the shedding of innocent blood. Arrogance, lies, and violence offend Him deeply.

Cross-references · 27

• Ps 120:2–3Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.
• Prov 12:22Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.
• Isa 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
• Ps 101:5Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
• Ps 5:6You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
• Prov 21:4Haughty eyes and a proud heart—the guides of the wicked—are sin.
• Isa 3:9The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.
• Deut 27:25‘Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
• Prov 26:28A lying tongue hates those it crushes, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.
• Hos 4:1–2Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!
• 2 Kgs 24:4and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.
• John 8:44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
• Prov 14:5An honest witness does not deceive, but a dishonest witness pours forth lies.
• Isa 59:3–7For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
• Isa 3:16The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—
• Ps 18:27For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.
• Deut 19:10Thus innocent blood will not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.
• Ps 31:18May lying lips be silenced—lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.
• Prov 1:11If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
• Prov 30:13There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances—
• Prov 17:7Eloquent words are unfit for a fool; how much worse are lying lips to a ruler!
• Isa 2:11The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
• Rev 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
• Ps 131:1A song of ascents. Of David. My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great things or matters too lofty for me.
• Ps 10:4In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
• Ps 73:6–8Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.
• 1 Pet 5:5Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

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