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, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
• Prov 12:22Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.
• Isa 1:15When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
• Ps 101:5I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
• Ps 5:6You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
• Prov 21:4A high look, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
• Isa 3:9The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
• Deut 27:25‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
• Prov 26:28A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.
• Hos 4:1–2Hear 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.
• 2 Kgs 24:4and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.
• John 8:44You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
• Prov 14:5A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.
• Isa 59:3–7For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.
• Isa 3:16Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;
• Ps 18:27For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.
• Deut 19:10This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.
• Ps 31:18Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
• Prov 1:11If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
• Prov 30:13There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.
• Prov 17:7Arrogant speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.
• Isa 2:11The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
• Rev 22:15Outside 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. By David. Yahweh, my heart isn’t haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.
• Ps 10:4The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
• Ps 73:6–8Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
• 1 Pet 5:5Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

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