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May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,
Psalms 12:3 · World English Bible
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  • KJV The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
  • BSB May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.
  • NKJV May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, And the tongue that speaks proud things,
  • NASB May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaks great things;
  • NLT May the Lord cut off their flattering lips and silence their boastful tongues.

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  • Prov 18:21Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.
  • Dan 7:8I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
  • Rev 13:5A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
  • Ps 17:10They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
  • Ezek 29:3Speak and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the middle of his rivers, that has said, ‘My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.’
  • 1 Sam 17:43–44The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” The Philistine cursed David by his gods.
  • 2 Kgs 19:23–24By your messengers, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon, and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.
  • Dan 7:25He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
  • Ezek 28:2Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God —
  • Dan 4:30–31The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
  • 1 Sam 2:3“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.
  • 2 Pet 2:18For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
  • Mal 3:13“Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
  • Ezek 28:9Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.
  • Jude 1:16These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
  • Ps 73:8–9They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
  • Exod 15:9The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.’
  • Job 32:22For I don’t know how to give flattering titles; or else my Maker would soon take me away.
  • Isa 10:10As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

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