Psalm 5:9

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For there is no truth in their mouth; their heart is destruction, their throat is an open sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue.

Cross References

Romans 3:13

“Their throat is an open grave, they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.”

Psalm 62:4

They only plan to thrust him down from his eminence. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah

Micah 6:12

Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Proverbs 29:5

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Psalm 51:6

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.

Luke 11:44

Woe to you! for you are like graves which are not seen, and men walk over them without knowing it.”

Psalm 52:2

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

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it?

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Psalm 64:6

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

Psalm 62:9

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

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For we never used either words of flattery, as you know, or a cloak for greed, as God is witness;

Luke 11:39

And the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of extortion and wickedness.

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 straight way for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.

Psalm 27:11

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

Psalm 69:19

Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to thee.

Isaiah 26:7

The way of the righteous is level; thou dost make smooth the path of the righteous.