The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.


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Proverbs 18 4 The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
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 4 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
Hebrews 4 12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Proverbs 19 12 The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
Psalms 10 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
2 Corinthians 10 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;
Revelation 1 15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
Isaiah 42 25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
2 Chronicles 32 6 And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,
2 Samuel 22 35 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
Revelation 19 15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Isaiah 53 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Job 41 24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
Daniel 10 6 His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
1 Kings 20 25 And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.
Ecclesiastes 10 13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
Proverbs 18 6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
Isaiah 9 5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
Job 41 30 Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
2 Samuel 11 19 And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,
1 Kings 20 18 And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.
Psalms 45 5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
Lamentations 4 9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Proverbs 10 11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Daniel 8 25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
Daniel 5 6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Psalms 109 18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Jeremiah 4 10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.
Proverbs 18 7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Micah 4 3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Nahum 1 6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
Psalms 64 3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
Job 15 24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Psalms 18 34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
Proverbs 16 13 Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.
1 Peter 2 1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, all evil speakings,
Exodus 15 9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Ecclesiastes 10 12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Isaiah 42 13 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
Ezekiel 26 11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.
Job 20 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
Matthew 15 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
Isaiah 31 8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
Proverbs 12 18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Zechariah 10 4 Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.
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.
Proverbs 12 6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Isaiah 33 19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
Isaiah 2 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.