You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

Hide me from the counsel of the wicked, from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity,

so that they may shoot at the perfect one from a hiding place; suddenly they shoot at him and do not fear.

They devise injustice; they have finished searching out a plot. Yea, the inward part of man and the heart are unfathomable.

who have devised evil things in their hearts; they continually gather together for war.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; the poison of vipers is under their lips. Selah

These six things Jehovah hates; yea, seven are an abomination to his soul:

a heart that devises evil plans, feet hurrying to run to evil,

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaw teeth like knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies. But they are not mighty for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know Me, says Jehovah.

Everyone beware of his neighbor, and do not trust any brother! For every brother will supplant and assail his neighbor, and will walk with slanderers.

Then they said, Come and let us devise schemes against Jeremiah. For the Law shall not perish from the priest, nor wisdom from the wise, nor the Word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.

Now the chief priests, the elders, and all the council sought false testimony against Jesus to put Him to death,

Then they secretly induced men to say, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.

They also set up false witnesses who said, This man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law;

And after five days Ananias the high priest came down with the elders and a certain orator named Tertullus. These made declarations to the governor against Paul.

For we have found this man pestilent, a mover of insurrection among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

And I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven, Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.

My soul is among lions; I lie among the sons of men who are on fire, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Behold, they belch with their mouth; swords are in their lips; for they say, Who hears?

There are those who speak like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful have opened against me; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Rescue my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the Word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation 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.