Psalms 12:2

Everyone lies to his neighbor with flattering lips and a double heart. Widespread deceit corrupts human relationships.

Cross-references · 21

• Rom 16:18For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
• Jer 9:8Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.
• Ps 41:6My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.
• Ps 5:9For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
• Ps 144:8whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
• Ps 10:7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
• Jas 1:8He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
• Ps 28:3Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.
• 1 Th 2:5As you know, we never used words of flattery or any pretext for greed. God is our witness!
• Ps 52:1–4For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
• Ezek 12:24For there will be no more false visions or flattering divinations within the house of Israel,
• Jer 9:2–6If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
• Prov 29:5A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
• Ps 62:4They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah
• Ps 144:11Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
• Prov 20:19He who reveals secrets is a constant gossip; avoid the one who babbles with his lips.
• Ps 55:21His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.
• Ps 59:12By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.
• 1 Chr 12:33From Zebulun: 50,000 fit for service, trained for battle with all kinds of weapons of war, who with one purpose were devoted to David.
• Ps 36:3–4The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.
• Ps 38:12Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.

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