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 upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
• Ps 94:4How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
• Isa 54:17No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
• 1 Sam 2:3Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
• John 8:48Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
• Ps 64:3–4Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
• Rev 22:15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
• Matt 12:24But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
• Rev 21:8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
• Acts 25:7And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.
• John 8:44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
• Isa 37:22–24This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
• Ps 12:3The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
• 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.
• Ps 120:2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
• Prov 12:19The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
• 2 Chr 32:16And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
• Ps 140:9–11As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
• Ps 63:11But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
• Ps 123:3–4Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
• Matt 10:25It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?

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