Exodus 5:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Let heavier work be laid on them; then they will pay attention to it and not to deceptive words.”

Cross References

2 Kings 18:20

Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? On whom do you now rely, that you have rebelled against me?

Job 16:3

Have windy words no limit? Or what provokes you that you keep on talking?

Exodus 5:10

So the taskmasters and the supervisors of the people went out and said to the people, “Thus says Pharaoh: I will not give you straw.

Exodus 5:8

But you shall require of them the same quantity of bricks as they have made previously; do not diminish it, for they are lazy; that is why they cry, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

Jeremiah 43:2

Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the other insolent men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie. The Lord our God did not send you to say, ‘Do not go to Egypt to settle there,’

Zechariah 1:6

But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your ancestors? So they repented and said, ‘The Lord of hosts has dealt with us according to our ways and deeds, just as he planned to do.’ ”

Malachi 3:14

You have said, “It is vain to serve God. What do we profit by keeping his command or by going about as mourners before the Lord of hosts?

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on those who are disobedient.