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 they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
• Jer 9:8Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
• Ps 41:6And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
• Ps 5:9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
• Ps 144:8Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
• Ps 10:7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
• Jas 1:8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
• Ps 28:3Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
• 1 Th 2:5For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
• Ps 52:1–4Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
• Ezek 12:24For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
• Jer 9:2–6Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
• Prov 29:5A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
• Ps 62:4They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
• Ps 144:11Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
• Prov 20:19He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
• Ps 55:21The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
• Ps 59:12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
• 1 Chr 12:33Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart.
• Ps 36:3–4The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
• Ps 38:12They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

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