Jeremiah 9:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.”
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“Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 9:5 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 19:11And they struck the men at the entrance, young and old, with blindness, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.
- Judges 2:10After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up who did not know the LORD or the works that He had done for Israel.
- Job 11:3Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?
- Job 15:5For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
- Psalms 7:14Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
- Psalms 50:19You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.
- Psalms 64:3who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
- Psalms 140:3They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
- Proverbs 4:16For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
- Proverbs 12:5The plans of the righteous are just, but the counsel of the wicked leads to deceit.
- Isaiah 5:18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,
- Isaiah 41:6Each one helps the other and says to his brother, “Be strong!”
- Isaiah 44:12The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.
- Isaiah 57:10You are wearied by your many journeys, but you did not say, “There is no hope!” You found renewal of your strength; therefore you did not grow weak.
- Isaiah 59:13rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
- Jeremiah 4:22“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
- Jeremiah 9:3“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.
- Jeremiah 9:8Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.
- Ezekiel 24:12It has frustrated every effort; its thick rust has not been removed, even by the fire.
- Micah 6:3‘My people, what have I done to you? Testify against Me how I have wearied you!
- Micah 6:12For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
- Habakkuk 2:13Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?
- Ephesians 4:25Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
- 1 Timothy 4:2influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.
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