Psalms 52:2

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

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• Prov 18:21Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
• Prov 6:16–19These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
• Ps 57:4My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
• Prov 12:18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
• Ps 59:7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
• Jer 9:3–4And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
• Acts 24:1And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.
• Ps 50:19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
• Jer 18:18Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
• Ps 64:2–6Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
• Matt 26:59Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
• Ps 120:2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
• 2 Cor 4:2But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
• Ps 140:2–3Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
• Ps 109:2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
• 2 Cor 11:13For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
• Acts 24:5For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
• Acts 6:11–13Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
• Prov 30:14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
• Rev 12:10And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

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