Psalms 12:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.”
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“They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.”
King James Version · Public Domain“They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 12:2 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Chronicles 12:33From Zebulun: 50,000 fit for service, trained for battle with all kinds of weapons of war, who with one purpose were devoted to David.
- Psalms 5:9For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
- Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
- Psalms 28:3Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.
- Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.
- Psalms 38:12Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
- Psalms 41:6My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.
- Psalms 52:1Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
- Psalms 55:21His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.
- Psalms 59:12By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.
- Psalms 62:4They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah
- Psalms 116:11In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”
- Psalms 144:8whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
- Psalms 144:11Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
- Proverbs 20:6Many a man proclaims his loving devotion, but who can find a trustworthy man?
- Proverbs 20:19He who reveals secrets is a constant gossip; avoid the one who babbles with his lips.
- Proverbs 29:5A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
- Jeremiah 7:28Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.
- Jeremiah 9:2If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
- 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 12:24For there will be no more false visions or flattering divinations within the house of Israel,
- Micah 7:2The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
- Romans 16:18For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:5As you know, we never used words of flattery or any pretext for greed. God is our witness!
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