Proverbs 25:18

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

Cross References

Psalm 140:3

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.

Psalm 52:2

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalm 55:21

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Exodus 20:16

*You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Proverbs 12:18

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Proverbs 24:28

Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.

Proverbs 25:17

Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you.

Jeremiah 9:3

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 don't know me, says the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:8

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

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehinnom.