Jeremiah 9:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

Cross References

Genesis 19:11

But the men who were outside the door they made blind, all of them, small and great, so that they were tired out with looking for the door.

Job 11:3

Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

Job 15:5

For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.

Psalm 140:3

Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. Selah.

Psalm 50:19

You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.

Psalm 52:3

You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. Selah.

Psalm 64:3

Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;

Psalm 7:14

That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.

Proverbs 12:5

The purposes of upright men are right, but the designs of evil-doers are deceit.

Proverbs 4:16

For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

Isaiah 5:18

Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!

Isaiah 57:10

You were tired with your long journeys; but you did not say, There is no hope: you got new strength, and so you were not feeble.

Jeremiah 12:13

Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

Jeremiah 12:6

For even your brothers, your father's family, even they have been untrue to you, crying loudly after you: have no faith in them, though they say fair words to you.

Jeremiah 13:23

Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

Jeremiah 51:58

The Lord of armies has said: The wide walls of Babylon will be completely uncovered and her high doorways will be burned with fire; so peoples keep on working for nothing, and the weariness of nations comes to an end in the smoke.

Jeremiah 51:64

And you are to say, So Babylon will go down, never to be lifted up again, because of the evil which I will send on her: and weariness will overcome them. So far, these are the words of Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 7:28

And you are to say to them, This is the nation which has not given ear to the voice of their God, or taken his teaching to heart: good faith is dead and is cut off from their mouths.

Jeremiah 9:3

Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:8

His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.

Ezekiel 24:12

I have made myself tired to no purpose: still all the waste which is in her has not come out, it has an evil smell.

Micah 6:12

For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

Micah 6:3

O my people, what have I done to you? how have I been a weariness to you? give answer against me.

Habakkuk 2:13

See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?

Malachi 2:10

Have we not all one father? has not one God made us? why are we, every one of us, acting falsely to his brother, putting shame on the agreement of our fathers?

Ephesians 4:25

And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.

1 Timothy 4:2

Through the false ways of men whose words are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron;

Judges 2:10

And in time death overtook all that generation; and another generation came after them, having no knowledge of the Lord or of the things which he had done for Israel.