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Psalms 12:2

โ€œEveryone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.โ€

Psalms 12:2 in the King James Version

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
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Verse in context โ€” Psalms 12

1

Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

2

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

3

May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

4

who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?

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Cross references for Psalms 12:2

  • Romans 16:18

    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.

  • Jeremiah 9:8

    Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.

  • Psalms 41:6

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

  • Psalms 144:8

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

  • Psalms 10:7

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

  • Psalms 5:9

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

  • Psalms 28:3

    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.

  • James 1:8

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

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:5

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

  • Psalms 52:1-4

    Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness endures continually. Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah. You love...

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