Psalm 12:2 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

² They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: With flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² To his neighbor each one speaks words without use or worth or truth; with flattering lips and double heart [deceitfully] they speak.

American Standard Version (1901)

² They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

Common English Bible

² Everyone tells lies to everyone else; they talk with slick speech and divided hearts.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² How long can I take counsel in my soul, sorrowing in my heart throughout the day?

Psalm 12:2 Cross References

Romans 16:18

For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

Psalm 41:6

And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

Psalm 144:8

whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Psalm 10:7

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

Psalm 5:9

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

James 1:8

A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Psalm 28:3

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God is witness:

Ezekiel 12:24

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

Proverbs 29:5

A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.

Proverbs 20:19

He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

Psalm 144:11

Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:

Psalm 62:4

They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

Psalm 55:21

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

Psalm 59:12

For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

1 Chronicles 12:33

Of Zeb´ulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart.

Psalm 38:12

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me; and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

Psalm 116:11

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Proverbs 20:6

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

Jeremiah 7:28

But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

Micah 7:2

The good man is perished out of the earth; and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.