Jeremiah 9:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁵ And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ And they deceive and mock every one his neighbor and do not speak the truth. They have taught their tongues to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

Common English Bible

⁵ One cheats the other; no one tells the truth; they train themselves to lie; they wear themselves out by doing wrong.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And a man will deride his brother, and they will not speak the truth. For they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they have labored to commit iniquity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak the truth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies, they have laboured to commit iniquity.

Jeremiah 9:5 Cross References

Genesis 19:11

And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

Job 11:3

Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

Job 15:5

For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

Psalm 140:3

They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders' poison is under their lips. Selah

Psalm 50:19

Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit.

Psalm 52:3

Thou lovest evil more than good; And lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah

Psalm 64:3

Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words:

Psalm 7:14

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity; Yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous are just: But the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

Proverbs 4:16

For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

Isaiah 5:18

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

Isaiah 57:10

Thou wast wearied with the length of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou didst find a quickening of thy strength; therefore thou wast not faint.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and ye shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

Jeremiah 12:6

For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; even they have cried aloud after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people is foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 51:58

Thus saith the LORD of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labour for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.

Jeremiah 51:64

and thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 7:28

And thou shalt say unto them, This is the nation that hath not hearkened to the voice of the LORD their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongue as it were their bow for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:8

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

Ezekiel 24:12

She hath wearied herself with toil: yet her great rust goeth not forth out of her; her rust goeth not forth by fire.

Micah 6:12

For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Micah 6:3

O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

Malachi 2:10

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Ephesians 4:25

Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

1 Timothy 4:2

through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

Judges 2:10

And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the work which he had wrought for Israel.