World English Bible
Psalms 31:18
“Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.”
Psalms 31:18 in the King James Version
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.Read Psalms 31:18 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Psalms 31
Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness.
Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.
Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!
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.
Cross references for Psalms 31:18
- Jude 1:15
to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
- Psalms 94:4
They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
- 1 Samuel 2:3
Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Don't let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.
- Isaiah 54:17
No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me," says Yahweh.
- Psalms 64:3-4
who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words, to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.
- Matthew 12:24
But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, "This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.
- Revelation 21:8
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.
- Revelation 22:15
Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- John 8:44
You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is ...
- John 8:48
Then the Jews answered him, "Don't we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?
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