What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?
Parallel translations
- KJV What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
- BSB What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?
- NKJV What shall be given to you, Or what shall be done to you, You false tongue?
- NASB What will He give to you, and what more will He do to you, You deceitful tongue?
- NLT O deceptive tongue, what will God do to you? How will he increase your punishment?
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Cross-references · 3
- Job 27:8For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
- Matt 16:26For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
- Rom 6:21What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
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