KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 31:18
One verse, with its study helps gathered in one place.
Psalms 31:18
18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
18†Let the lying lippes be put to silence: which speake grieuous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
- Heb. a hard thing.
ENSURE CONTEXTUALIZATION
Add surrounding context
Extend this passage one adjacent verse at a time.
QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS VERSE?
Ask a Local Pastor
Find a nearby pastor committed to holding fast the faithful word, then use the public contact information to begin a real conversation. Nothing is sent or stored for you.
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 31:18
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To place, set, lay, appoint, bring into a condition, or cause to be, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The absence of speech or sound; holding one's peace.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To utter words; to say, declare, address, or communicate by speech.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Burdensome, painful, severe.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
With an inordinate self-esteem; in a proud manner; haughtily; ostentatiously; with lofty airs or mien.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
contemptuously
In a scornful or disdainful manner; with contempt.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Just, right, or conforming to God's law and judgment; equitable or upright; as a noun, a person characterized as righteous.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE
Cross References
Choose how far to extend the reference list.
From verse 18
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study15To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study4How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study3Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study17¶ No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study7And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study48Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study24But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study3Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
4That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study16And his servants spake yet more against the Lord God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study22This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
23Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
24By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study19The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study3The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study2Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study3Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study9As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
10Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
11Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study11But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study25It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION
Still have questions? Ask a Local Pastor.
See public contact information for nearby churches. You decide whether to call, email, or visit.