Falsehood
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Falsehood’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue. God will likewise destroy you forever. He will…
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Psalms 55:21 OT
His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
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Psalms 55:23 OT
But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
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Psalms 58:3 OT
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
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Psalms 59:12 OT
For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.
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Psalms 62:4 OT
They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.
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Psalms 63:11 OT
But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.
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Psalms 101:5 OT
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
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Psalms 101:7 OT
He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.
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Psalms 109:2 OT
for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
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I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”
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Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
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The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
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I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.
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Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue? Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
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Psalms 144:8 OT
whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
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Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
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to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things, who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness, who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil, who are crooked in their…
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Proverbs 3:3 OT
Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
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A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,
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who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers,
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arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief, a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
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He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
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One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.