18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers. 19 You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit. 20 You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
Psalms 50:18–20
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Job 15:4–6
4 But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him. 5 For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. 6 Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
1 Clement 35:7–9
7 For the scripture saith, But unto the sinner said God, Wherefore dost thou declare Mine ordinances, and takest My covenant upon thy lips? (1CL) 8 Yet Thou didst hate instruction and didst cast away My words behind thee. If thou sawest a thief thou didst keep company w… (1CL)
Psalms 52:2–4
2 Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. 3 You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah 4 You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
Psalms 144:7–9
7 Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners, 8 whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful. 9 I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—
Proverbs 17:3–5
3 A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts. 4 A wicked man listens to evil lips; a liar gives ear to a destructive tongue. 5 He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.
Job 15:34–35
34 For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery. 35 They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”
Sirach 7:11–13
11 Don’t laugh a man to scorn when he is in the bitterness of his soul, for there is one who humbles and exalts. (WEB) 12 Don’t devise a lie against your brother, or do the same to a friend. (WEB) 13 Refuse to utter a lie, for that habit results in no good. (WEB)
Job 36:16–18
16 Indeed, He drew you from the jaws of distress to a spacious and broad place, to a table full of richness. 17 But now you are laden with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have seized you. 18 Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a la…
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