Psalm 5:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For there is no truth in their mouths; their hearts are destruction; their throats are open graves; they flatter with their tongues.

Cross References

Ezra 8:21

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the River Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our possessions.

Psalm 27:11

Teach me your way, O Lord, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.

Psalm 51:6

You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.

Psalm 52:2

you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.

Psalm 62:4

Their only plan is to bring down a person of prominence. They take pleasure in falsehood; they bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah

Psalm 62:9

Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.

Psalm 64:6

Who can search out our crimes? We have thought out a cunningly conceived plot.” For the human heart and mind are deep.

Psalm 69:19

You know the insults I receive and my shame and dishonor; my foes are all known to you.

Proverbs 29:5

Whoever flatters a neighbor is spreading a net for the neighbor’s feet.

Isaiah 26:7

The way of the righteous is level; straight is the path of the righteous that you clear.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse— who can understand it?

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?

Micah 6:12

Your wealthy are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies with tongues of deceit in their mouths.

Luke 11:39

Then the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

Luke 11:44

Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves on which people unknowingly walk.”

Romans 3:13

“Their throats are opened graves; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of vipers is under their lips.”

1 Thessalonians 2:5

As you know and as God is our witness, we never came with words of flattery or with a pretext for greed,