Proverbs 23:7

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

She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”

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

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.

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.” He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”

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

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.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

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.

They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and, “God has visited his people!”

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”

Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.

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

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

They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.

whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at the table.

They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war: fifty thousand who could command and were not of double heart.

God said to Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, nor yet have you asked for long life; but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king,

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

When his speech is charming, don’t believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.

Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

He said, “Behold, I will make you know what will be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.

“In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, will stand up.

“At the time of the end the king of the south will contend with him; and the king of the north will come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, with horsemen, and with many ships. He will enter into the countries, and will overflow and pass through.

That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”

Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”

All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes.” The king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.

Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, “Hear me, my brothers, and my people! As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and for the footstool of our God; and I had prepared for the building.

You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

In time of security he will come even on the fattest places of the province. He will do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers. He will scatter among them prey, plunder, and substance. Yes, he will devise his plans against the strongholds, even for a time.

While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.