Psalm 52:2

New International Version

You who practice deceit, your tongue plots destruction; it is like a sharpened razor.

Cross References

Proverbs 18:21

The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Psalm 57:4

I am in the midst of lions; I am forced to dwell among ravenous beasts— men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

Proverbs 12:18

The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Psalm 59:7

See what they spew from their mouths— the words from their lips are sharp as swords, and they think, “Who can hear us?”

2 Corinthians 11:13

For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:2

Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.

Acts 24:5

“We have found this man to be a troublemaker, stirring up riots among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect

Acts 24:1

Five days later the high priest Ananias went down to Caesarea with some of the elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, and they brought their charges against Paul before the governor.

Matthew 26:59

The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false evidence against Jesus so that they could put him to death.

Jeremiah 18:18

They said, “Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest will not cease, nor will counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. So come, let’s attack him with our tongues and pay no attention to anything he says.”

Proverbs 30:14

those whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are set with knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among mankind.

Psalm 120:2

Save me, Lord, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.

Psalm 109:2

for people who are wicked and deceitful have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with lying tongues.

Psalm 50:19

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

Revelation 12:10

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.

1 Samuel 22:9

But Doeg the Edomite, who was standing with Saul’s officials, said, “I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelek son of Ahitub at Nob.