Psalms 50:19

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Psalms 50:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible

17 For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.

18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.

19 You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.

20 You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.

21 You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 52:3

You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah

Psalms 52:4

You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.

Jeremiah 9:5

Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.

Psalms 5:9

For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.

Psalms 10:7

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.

Psalms 12:2

They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.

Psalms 12:3

May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.

Psalms 36:3

The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.

Psalms 36:4

Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.

Psalms 55:12

For 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 55:21

His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.

Psalms 64:3

who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,

Psalms 64:4

ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.

Psalms 64:5

They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.

Isaiah 59:4

No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

Hosea 4:2

Cursing 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.”

Romans 3:14

“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

James 3:5

In 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.

James 3:6

The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

James 3:7

All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man,

James 3:8

but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

James 3:9

With the tongue we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness.

Revelation 21:8

But 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.”