Psalms 31:18

David asks that lying lips speaking arrogantly against the righteous be silenced. It appeals for God to stop slanderers.

Cross-references · 21

• Jude 1:15to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.”
• Ps 94:4They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.
• Isa 54:17No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.
• 1 Sam 2:3Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.
• John 8:48The Jews answered Him, “Are we not right to say that You are a Samaritan and You have a demon?”
• Ps 64:3–4who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
• Rev 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
• Matt 12:24But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “Only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, does this man drive out demons.”
• Rev 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
• Acts 25:7When Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many serious charges that they could not prove.
• John 8:44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
• Isa 37:22–24this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.
• Ps 12:3May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.
• 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.
• Ps 120:2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.
• Prov 12:19Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.
• 2 Chr 32:16And the servants of Sennacherib spoke further against the LORD God and against His servant Hezekiah.
• Ps 140:9–11May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.
• Ps 63:11But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by Him will exult, for the mouths of liars will be shut.
• Ps 123:3–4Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.
• Matt 10:25It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!

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