Psalm 36:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ The words of their mouths are mischief and deceit; they have ceased to act wisely and do good.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ The words of his mouth are wrong and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and to do good.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath ceased to be wise and to do good.

Common English Bible

³ The words of their mouths are evil and dishonest. They have stopped being wise and stopped doing good.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Hope in the Lord and do good, and dwell in the land, and so you shall be pastured with its riches.

Psalm 36:3 Cross References

Psalm 55:21

with speech smoother than butter but with a heart set on war, with words that were softer than oil but in fact were drawn swords.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For my people are foolish; they do not know me; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil but do not know how to do good.”

Psalm 10:7

Their mouths are filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under their tongues are mischief and iniquity.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they did not belong to us, for if they had belonged to us they would have remained with us. But by going out they made it plain that none of them belongs to us.

Hebrews 10:39

But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost but among those who have faith and so preserve our souls.

Matthew 22:35

and one of them, an expert in the law, asked him a question to test him.

Zephaniah 1:6

those who have turned back from following the Lord, who have not sought the Lord or inquired of him.

Psalm 140:3

They make their tongue sharp as a snake’s, and under their lips is the venom of vipers. Selah

Psalm 125:5

But those who turn aside to their own crooked ways, the Lord will lead away with evildoers. Peace be upon Israel!

Psalm 94:8

Understand, O dullest of the people; fools, when will you be wise?

Psalm 58:3

The wicked go astray from the womb; they err from their birth, speaking lies.

Psalm 5:9

For there is no truth in their mouths; their hearts are destruction; their throats are open graves; they flatter with their tongues.

1 Samuel 26:21

Then Saul said, “I have done wrong; come back, my son David, for I will never harm you again, because my life was precious in your sight today; I have been a fool and have made a great mistake.”

1 Samuel 18:21

Saul thought, “Let me give her to him that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall now be my son-in-law.”

1 Samuel 16:14

Now the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented him.

1 Samuel 15:26

Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

2 Samuel 22:22

For I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.

2 Chronicles 20:32

He walked in the way of his father Asa and did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the Lord.

Proverbs 4:16

For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.

Hosea 8:3

Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him.

Luke 11:25

When it returns, it finds it swept and put in order.