Jeremiah 9:5

New International Version

Friend deceives friend, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning.

Cross References

Genesis 19:11

Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.

Job 11:3

Will your idle talk reduce others to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock?

Job 15:5

Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty.

Psalm 140:3

They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent’s; the poison of vipers is on their lips.

Psalm 50:19

You use your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.

Psalm 52:3

You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking the truth.

Psalm 64:3

They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim cruel words like deadly arrows.

Psalm 7:14

Whoever is pregnant with evil conceives trouble and gives birth to disillusionment.

Proverbs 12:5

The plans of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

Proverbs 4:16

For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble.

Isaiah 5:18

Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit, and wickedness as with cart ropes,

Isaiah 57:10

You wearied yourself by such going about, but you would not say, ‘It is hopeless.’ You found renewal of your strength, and so you did not faint.

Jeremiah 12:13

They will sow wheat but reap thorns; they will wear themselves out but gain nothing. They will bear the shame of their harvest because of the Lord’s fierce anger.”

Jeremiah 12:6

Your relatives, members of your own family— even they have betrayed you; they have raised a loud cry against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can an Ethiopian change his skin or a leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.

Jeremiah 4:22

“My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.”

Jeremiah 51:58

This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Babylon’s thick wall will be leveled and her high gates set on fire; the peoples exhaust themselves for nothing, the nations’ labor is only fuel for the flames.”

Jeremiah 51:64

Then say, ‘So will Babylon sink to rise no more because of the disaster I will bring on her. And her people will fall.’ ” The words of Jeremiah end here.

Jeremiah 7:28

Therefore say to them, ‘This is the nation that has not obeyed the Lord its God or responded to correction. Truth has perished; it has vanished from their lips.

Jeremiah 9:3

“They make ready their tongue like a bow, to shoot lies; it is not by truth that they triumph in the land. They go from one sin to another; they do not acknowledge me,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully. With their mouths they all speak cordially to their neighbors, but in their hearts they set traps for them.

Ezekiel 24:12

It has frustrated all efforts; its heavy deposit has not been removed, not even by fire.

Micah 6:12

Your rich people are violent; your inhabitants are liars and their tongues speak deceitfully.

Micah 6:3

“My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me.

Habakkuk 2:13

Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?

Malachi 2:10

Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why do we profane the covenant of our ancestors by being unfaithful to one another?

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body.

1 Timothy 4:2

Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.

Judges 2:10

After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done for Israel.