Proverbs 12:22
Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.
BSB
ASV
Lying lips are an abomination to Jehovah; But they that deal truly are his delight.
KJV
Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Jeremiah 9:24But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,”…
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Rather, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
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Revelation 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
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But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This…
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!