Psalms 12:2

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.

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.”

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

“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.

Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;

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

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

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

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.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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

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

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

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

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

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;

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

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.

Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.

Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”

Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

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.”

“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.

I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

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

“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

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

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

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.

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

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

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,

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

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

For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.

Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.

“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.

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.

They will fall among those who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her away with all her multitudes.

While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;

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.

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

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

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

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

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.

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

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

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

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

Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”

The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?” They answered, “They were like you. They all resembled the children of a king.”

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

Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”

David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent after him.

Absalom came to the king, and said, “See now, your servant has sheep shearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant.”

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

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.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

For there will be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.

They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.

The people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”

He said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.

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