Psalms 50:19
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.”
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BSBPD
“You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 50:19 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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 12:2They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
- Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.
- Psalms 52:2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
- Psalms 52:4You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
- Psalms 55:12For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.
- 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 64:3who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
- Isaiah 59:3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
- Jeremiah 9:5Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.
- Hosea 4:2Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
- Romans 3:13“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
- James 3:5In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
- Revelation 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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