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 from a deceitful tongue.
• Prov 12:22Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
• Isa 1:15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
• Ps 101:5Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
• Ps 5:6Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
• Prov 21:4An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
• Isa 3:9The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
• Deut 27:25Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
• Prov 26:28A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
• Hos 4:1–2Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
• 2 Kgs 24:4And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
• John 8:44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
• Prov 14:5A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
• Isa 59:3–7For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
• Isa 3:16Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
• Ps 18:27For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
• Deut 19:10That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
• Ps 31:18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
• Prov 1:11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
• Prov 30:13There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
• Prov 17:7Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
• Isa 2:11The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
• Rev 22:15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
• Ps 131:1Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
• Ps 10:4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
• Ps 73:6–8Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
• 1 Pet 5:5Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

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