If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.


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Proverbs 17 4 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
Proverbs 8 7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Psalms 109 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
Jeremiah 50 36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
Job 27 4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
Psalms 101 7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
Proverbs 13 5 A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
Psalms 55 11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Hosea 10 13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
Proverbs 16 12 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
Hosea 7 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Isaiah 59 4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Jeremiah 9 5 And 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.
Psalms 50 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Jeremiah 9 3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
Job 34 18 Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?
Jeremiah 27 14 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
Malachi 1 14 But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.
Proverbs 14 35 The king's favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.
Proverbs 30 10 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.
Psalms 119 118 Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
2 Samuel 19 27 And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.
Proverbs 12 5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Ecclesiastes 8 4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
Job 11 3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
Psalms 63 11 But 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.
Jeremiah 9 8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
Jeremiah 38 25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:
Hosea 9 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
1 Samuel 12 25 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
Proverbs 24 28 Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
1 Kings 22 16 And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the LORD?
2 Corinthians 6 8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
Ezekiel 13 22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
Leviticus 20 15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.
Proverbs 20 19 He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
Exodus 22 19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
Psalms 10 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Proverbs 26 26 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.
Psalms 73 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
Psalms 41 8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
Proverbs 12 6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Proverbs 12 17 He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
Proverbs 19 9 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
Isaiah 40 23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Psalms 58 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Leviticus 4 22 When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD his God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty;
2 Peter 2 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
Jeremiah 5 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Job 12 21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.