Your mouth has multiplied wickedness, and your tongue has framed deceit.

You have sheltered me from the conspiracy of them that do wickedly; from the multitude of them that work iniquity;

to shoot in secret at the blameless; they will shoot him suddenly, and will not fear.

They have searched out iniquity; they have wearied themselves with searching diligently, a man shall approach and the heart is deep,

Who have devised injustice in their hearts; all the day they prepared war.

They have sharpened their tongue as [the tongue] of a serpent; the poison of asps is under their lips. Pause.

For he rejoices in all things which God hates, and he is ruined by reason of impurity of soul.

a heart devising evil thoughts, and feet hastening to do evil, [are hateful to God].

A wicked generation have swords for teeth and jaw-teeth as knives, so as to destroy and devour the lowly from the earth, and the poor of them from among men.

And they have bent their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not faithfulness has prevailed upon the earth; for they have gone on from evil to evil, and have not known Me, says the Lord.

Beware, each of his neighbor, and trust not in your brother, for everyone will surely supplant, and every friend will walk craftily.

Then they said, Come, and let us devise a plan against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us attack him with the tongue, and we will hear all his words.

Now the chief priests, the elders, and all the Sanhedrin were seeking false witnesses against Jesus, so that they might put Him to death,

Then they secretly instigated men to be saying, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God."

And they put forward false witnesses saying, "This man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against the holy place and the law;

Now after five days Ananias the high priest came down with the elders and a certain attorney named Tertullus, who made known to the governor the charges against Paul.

For [we] have found this man [to] be a plague, and [one] causing discord among all the Jews throughout the world, and a leader of the Nazarenes sect,

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of our brothers, the [one] who accused them before our God day and night, has been thrown [out of heaven].

and He has delivered my soul from the midst of [the lion's] whelps; I lay down to sleep, [though] troubled. [As for] the sons of men, their teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Behold, they shall utter a voice with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips; for who, [they say], has heard?

Some wound as they speak, like swords, but the tongues of the wise heal.

Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and they that rule it shall eat the fruits thereof.

for the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the crafty have been opened against me; they have spoken against me with a crafty tongue.

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from unjust lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor falsifying the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience before God.

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.