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Psalms 50:19–20

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Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
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From verse 19

  1. Psalms 10:7Rank 1 from verse 19
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    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

  2. Jeremiah 9:5Rank 2 from verse 19
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    5And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

  3. Psalms 52:2–4Rank 3 from verse 19
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    2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.

    3Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

    4Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

  4. Revelation 21:8Rank 4 from verse 19
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    8But 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.

  5. Isaiah 59:3–4Rank 5 from verse 19
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    3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

    4None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

From verse 20

  1. Matthew 10:21Rank 1 from verse 20
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    21And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

  2. Leviticus 19:16Rank 2 from verse 20
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    16¶ Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord.

  3. Proverbs 10:18Rank 3 from verse 20
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    18He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

  4. Matthew 5:11Rank 4 from verse 20
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    11Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

  5. Psalms 31:18Rank 5 from verse 20
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    18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

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Psalms 50:19

COMBINED MEANING

thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

mouth

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Sense 1: The bodily opening used for eating, breathing, and speaking. Sense 2: The opening or entrance of a thing. Sense 3: Speech, utterance, or the agency of speaking.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

evil

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Sense 1: Moral wickedness, sin, wrong, or corruption. Sense 2: Harm, misery, calamity, adversity, or punishment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

tongue

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1. The organ of the mouth used for tasting and speech. 2. Speech, words, or a language. 3. A tongue-shaped projection or arm of land or water.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

deceit

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Falsehood, guile, fraud, trickery, or a purpose, word, or act intended to mislead.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 50:20

COMBINED MEANING

thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

against

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Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

brother

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Sense 1: A male sibling; a near kinsman. Sense 2: A fellow member of a people or faith.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

mother

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Sense 1: A female parent. Sense 2: Figuratively, a source, chief city, or maternal relation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

son

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1. A male child or descendant. 2. One belonging to, related to, or characterized by the person, people, place, condition, or quality named.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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50:1THE mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

50:3Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

50:4He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

50:5Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

50:6And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.

50:7Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.

50:8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

50:9I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.

50:10For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

50:11I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

50:12If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

50:13Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

50:14Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:

50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

50:16But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

50:17Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

50:18When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

50:19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

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50:20Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.

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50:21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

50:22Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

50:23Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

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