Psalms 62:4

His enemies plot to topple him from his honored place, hiding curses behind flattering words. It unmasks their deceit and inward hostility.

Cross-references · 26

• Ps 55:21His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
• Ps 28:3Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
• Ps 5:9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
• Rom 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
• Rom 1:32who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
• Rev 22:15Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
• John 11:47–50The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
• Acts 4:16–17saying, “What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can’t deny it.
• Acts 4:25–28who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
• John 8:44You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
• Ps 52:3You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
• Hos 7:3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
• Ps 2:1–3Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
• Matt 22:15Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.
• Matt 2:3–4When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
• Matt 22:23On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,
• Matt 22:34–35But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together.
• Prov 6:17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;
• Prov 13:5A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.
• Ps 51:6Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
• Matt 27:1Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
• Matt 26:3–4Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
• Luke 20:20They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
• Matt 2:16Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
• Luke 11:39The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
• Ps 119:163I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.

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