Jeremiah 9:5

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,

When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.” He struck them with blindness according to Elishah’s word.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

The king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.

You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.

Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves, walk in the flame of your fire, and among the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: you will lie down in sorrow.

Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

“Keep your feet from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.’

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

Yahweh of Armies says: “The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown. Her high gates will be burned with fire. The peoples will labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they will be weary.”

Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!” Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

“ ‘You shall not steal. “ ‘You shall not lie. “ ‘You shall not deceive one another.

After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.

Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;

Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.

Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.

For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’ ”

In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness. They have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.”

Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecuted him:

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

“Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators, stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you.

“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’

They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.

Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,

They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

“If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,

But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his friend.

He said, “All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.’ ”

Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?

Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

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.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope,

You were wearied with the length of your ways; yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’ You found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren’t faint.

“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

She is weary with toil; yet her great rust, rust by fire, doesn’t leave her.

My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron,