Psalms 52:2

The wicked man's tongue is a weapon, sharp and deceitful, plotting ruin. It warns how destructive deceptive speech can be.

Cross-references · 20

• Prov 18:21Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
• Prov 6:16–19There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him:
• Ps 57:4My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts—with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
• Prov 12:18Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
• Ps 59:7See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”
• Jer 9:3–4“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
• Acts 24:1Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the governor their case against Paul.
• Ps 50:19You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.
• Jer 18:18Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
• Ps 64:2–6Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,
• Matt 26:59Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.
• Ps 120:2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.
• 2 Cor 4:2Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
• Ps 140:2–3who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.
• Ps 109:2For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.
• 2 Cor 11:13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
• Acts 24:5We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,
• Acts 6:11–13Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”
• Prov 30:14there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
• Rev 12:10And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down—he who accuses them day and night before our God.

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