Psalms 36:3
The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.
BSB
ASV
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath ceased to be wise and to do good.
KJV
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
What shall I say about Judas the traitor, who sought after greed and found sacrilege, saying: What will you give me, and I will hand him over to you (Matt. XXVI, 15)? Not satisfied with looting the spoils of the poor, he reached the fullness of the gravest crimes by committing crimes, mixing the sacraments of charity with wicked acts, when he said: He whom I shall kiss, he is: hold him (Ibid., 48); so that there can be no doubt that what was said about him is true: The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit.
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. This pair of hell dogs generally hunt together, and what one does not catch the other will; if iniquity cannot win by oppression, deceit will gain by chicanery. When the heart is so corrupt as to flatter itself, the tongue follows suit. The open sepulchre of the throat reveals the foulness of the inner nature.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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1 John 2:19They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of…
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Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.
And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved.
These are the ones who cause divisions, who are worldly and devoid of the Spirit.
The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall…
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Jeremiah 4:22“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
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Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise about what is good and innocent about what is evil.
“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget…