James 3:5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!

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English Standard Version - So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!
新标点和合本 - 这样，舌头在百体里也是最小的，却能说大话。看哪，最小的火能点着最大的树林。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 同样，舌头是小肢体，却能说大话。看哪，最小的火能点燃最大的树林。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 同样，舌头是小肢体，却能说大话。看哪，最小的火能点燃最大的树林。
当代译本 - 同样，人的舌头虽然很小，却能说夸大的话。看啊，小火星能点燃大森林。
圣经新译本 - 照样，舌头虽然是个小肢体，却会说夸大的话。　试看，星星之火，可以燎原；
中文标准译本 - 照样，舌头虽然是身体上一个小小的部分，却能大大地自夸。看哪，那么小的火，能点燃那么大的森林！
现代标点和合本 - 这样，舌头在百体里也是最小的，却能说大话。看哪，最小的火能点着最大的树林！
和合本（拼音版） - 这样，舌头在百体里也是最小的，却能说大话。看哪，最小的火能点着最大的树林。
New International Version - Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark.
New International Reader's Version - In the same way, the tongue is a small part of a person’s body. But it talks big. Think about how a small spark can set a big forest on fire.
New Living Translation - In the same way, the tongue is a small thing that makes grand speeches. But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire.
The Message - It only takes a spark, remember, to set off a forest fire. A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can do that. By our speech we can ruin the world, turn harmony to chaos, throw mud on a reputation, send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with it, smoke right from the pit of hell.
Christian Standard Bible - So too, though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts great things. Consider how a small fire sets ablaze a large forest.
New American Standard Bible - So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things. See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!
New King James Version - Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles!
Amplified Bible - In the same sense, the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things. See [by comparison] how great a forest is set on fire by a small spark!
American Standard Version - So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!
King James Version - Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
New English Translation - So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.
World English Bible - So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
新標點和合本 - 這樣，舌頭在百體裏也是最小的，卻能說大話。看哪，最小的火能點着最大的樹林。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 同樣，舌頭是小肢體，卻能說大話。看哪，最小的火能點燃最大的樹林。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 同樣，舌頭是小肢體，卻能說大話。看哪，最小的火能點燃最大的樹林。
當代譯本 - 同樣，人的舌頭雖然很小，卻能說誇大的話。看啊，小火星能點燃大森林。
聖經新譯本 - 照樣，舌頭雖然是個小肢體，卻會說誇大的話。　試看，星星之火，可以燎原；
呂振中譯本 - 舌頭也是這樣。舌頭是個小肢體，竟能誇說大事呢。你看，多麼小的火能點????多麼大堆的樹林木料啊！
中文標準譯本 - 照樣，舌頭雖然是身體上一個小小的部分，卻能大大地自誇。看哪，那麼小的火，能點燃那麼大的森林！
現代標點和合本 - 這樣，舌頭在百體裡也是最小的，卻能說大話。看哪，最小的火能點著最大的樹林！
文理和合譯本 - 如是、舌為小體、而誇大焉、些須之火、能燃若大之林、
文理委辦譯本 - 舌雖小而能誇大、薪甚多、微火可燃、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 如是舌為小體、而能誇大、薪甚多、薪甚多或作林甚茂微火可燃、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 舌在人身、亦復如是其形雖小、其誇實大。星星之火、可以燎原；
Nueva Versión Internacional - Así también la lengua es un miembro muy pequeño del cuerpo, pero hace alarde de grandes hazañas. ¡Imagínense qué gran bosque se incendia con tan pequeña chispa!
현대인의 성경 - 이와 같이 사람의 혀도 몸의 작은 부분에 불과하지만 그것을 잘못 사용하면 큰 손해를 가져옵니다. 작은 불씨가 큰 숲을 태우지 않습니까?
Новый Русский Перевод - Так же и язык: это маленький орган, но он много хвастается. Взгляни – большой лесной пожар начинается с маленькой искры.
Восточный перевод - Так же и язык: это маленький орган, но как велики его претензии! Взгляни, большой лесной пожар начинается с маленькой искры.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Так же и язык: это маленький орган, но как велики его претензии! Взгляни, большой лесной пожар начинается с маленькой искры.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Так же и язык: это маленький орган, но как велики его претензии! Взгляни, большой лесной пожар начинается с маленькой искры.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Il en va de même pour la langue : c’est un petit organe, mais elle se vante de grandes choses. Ne suffit-il pas d’un petit feu pour incendier une vaste forêt ?
リビングバイブル - 同様に舌もちっぽけなものですが、使い方を誤ると、途方もなく大きな害を生じます。小さな火が大きな森林を焼き尽くします。
Nestle Aland 28 - οὕτως καὶ ἡ γλῶσσα μικρὸν μέλος ἐστὶν καὶ μεγάλα αὐχεῖ. ἰδοὺ ἡλίκον πῦρ ἡλίκην ὕλην ἀνάπτει.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - οὕτως καὶ ἡ γλῶσσα μικρὸν μέλος ἐστὶν, καὶ μεγάλα αὐχεῖ. ἰδοὺ, ἡλίκον πῦρ, ἡλίκην ὕλην ἀνάπτει.
Nova Versão Internacional - Semelhantemente, a língua é um pequeno órgão do corpo, mas se vangloria de grandes coisas. Vejam como um grande bosque é incendiado por uma simples fagulha.
Hoffnung für alle - Genauso ist es mit unserer Zunge. So klein sie auch ist, so groß ist ihre Wirkung! Ein kleiner Funke setzt einen ganzen Wald in Brand.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Cũng vậy, cái lưỡi tuy rất nhỏ, nhưng có thể gây thiệt hại lớn lao. Một đốm lửa nhỏ có thể đốt cháy cả khu rừng rộng lớn.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ลิ้นก็เช่นกันเป็นอวัยวะเล็กๆ แต่ชอบคุยโวโอ้อวด คิดดูเถิด ประกายไฟนิดเดียวอาจเผาป่าใหญ่ได้
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ลิ้นก็เช่นเดียวกัน เป็นส่วนเล็กของร่างกาย แต่ยังโอ้อวดเรื่องที่ยิ่งใหญ่ ดูเถิดว่า ป่าใหญ่ถูกไฟไหม้ได้ด้วยเปลวไฟเล็กๆ

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Ezekiel 29:3 - speak, and say, Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, that says, ‘My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.’
Exodus 5:2 - But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.”
Daniel 3:15 - Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well and good. But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”
Daniel 4:30 - and the king answered and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
Job 21:14 - They say to God, ‘Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
Job 21:15 - What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’
2 Kings 19:22 - “Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel!
2 Kings 19:23 - By your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest lodging place, its most fruitful forest.
2 Kings 19:24 - I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.’
2 Peter 2:18 - For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.
Exodus 15:9 - The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’
Job 22:17 - They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’
Revelation 13:5 - And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months.
Revelation 13:6 - It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven.
Jude 1:16 - These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.
Ezekiel 28:2 - “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God: “Because your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,’ yet you are but a man, and no god, though you make your heart like the heart of a god—
Jeremiah 18:18 - Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”
Psalms 12:2 - Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
Psalms 12:3 - May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,
Psalms 12:4 - those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is master over us?”
Psalms 10:3 - For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord.
Proverbs 12:18 - There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Psalms 52:1 - Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day.
Psalms 52:2 - Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
Proverbs 15:2 - The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
Psalms 73:8 - They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.
Psalms 73:9 - They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.
Proverbs 18:21 - Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Psalms 17:10 - They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.
Jeremiah 9:3 - They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:4 - Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.
Jeremiah 9:5 - Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity.
Jeremiah 9:6 - Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:7 - Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of my people?
Jeremiah 9:8 - Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.

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English Standard Version - So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!
新标点和合本 - 这样，舌头在百体里也是最小的，却能说大话。看哪，最小的火能点着最大的树林。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 同样，舌头是小肢体，却能说大话。看哪，最小的火能点燃最大的树林。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 同样，舌头是小肢体，却能说大话。看哪，最小的火能点燃最大的树林。
当代译本 - 同样，人的舌头虽然很小，却能说夸大的话。看啊，小火星能点燃大森林。
圣经新译本 - 照样，舌头虽然是个小肢体，却会说夸大的话。　试看，星星之火，可以燎原；
中文标准译本 - 照样，舌头虽然是身体上一个小小的部分，却能大大地自夸。看哪，那么小的火，能点燃那么大的森林！
现代标点和合本 - 这样，舌头在百体里也是最小的，却能说大话。看哪，最小的火能点着最大的树林！
和合本（拼音版） - 这样，舌头在百体里也是最小的，却能说大话。看哪，最小的火能点着最大的树林。
New International Version - Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark.
New International Reader's Version - In the same way, the tongue is a small part of a person’s body. But it talks big. Think about how a small spark can set a big forest on fire.
New Living Translation - In the same way, the tongue is a small thing that makes grand speeches. But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire.
The Message - It only takes a spark, remember, to set off a forest fire. A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can do that. By our speech we can ruin the world, turn harmony to chaos, throw mud on a reputation, send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with it, smoke right from the pit of hell.
Christian Standard Bible - So too, though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts great things. Consider how a small fire sets ablaze a large forest.
New American Standard Bible - So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things. See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!
New King James Version - Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles!
Amplified Bible - In the same sense, the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things. See [by comparison] how great a forest is set on fire by a small spark!
American Standard Version - So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!
King James Version - Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
New English Translation - So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.
World English Bible - So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
新標點和合本 - 這樣，舌頭在百體裏也是最小的，卻能說大話。看哪，最小的火能點着最大的樹林。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 同樣，舌頭是小肢體，卻能說大話。看哪，最小的火能點燃最大的樹林。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 同樣，舌頭是小肢體，卻能說大話。看哪，最小的火能點燃最大的樹林。
當代譯本 - 同樣，人的舌頭雖然很小，卻能說誇大的話。看啊，小火星能點燃大森林。
聖經新譯本 - 照樣，舌頭雖然是個小肢體，卻會說誇大的話。　試看，星星之火，可以燎原；
呂振中譯本 - 舌頭也是這樣。舌頭是個小肢體，竟能誇說大事呢。你看，多麼小的火能點????多麼大堆的樹林木料啊！
中文標準譯本 - 照樣，舌頭雖然是身體上一個小小的部分，卻能大大地自誇。看哪，那麼小的火，能點燃那麼大的森林！
現代標點和合本 - 這樣，舌頭在百體裡也是最小的，卻能說大話。看哪，最小的火能點著最大的樹林！
文理和合譯本 - 如是、舌為小體、而誇大焉、些須之火、能燃若大之林、
文理委辦譯本 - 舌雖小而能誇大、薪甚多、微火可燃、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 如是舌為小體、而能誇大、薪甚多、薪甚多或作林甚茂微火可燃、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 舌在人身、亦復如是其形雖小、其誇實大。星星之火、可以燎原；
Nueva Versión Internacional - Así también la lengua es un miembro muy pequeño del cuerpo, pero hace alarde de grandes hazañas. ¡Imagínense qué gran bosque se incendia con tan pequeña chispa!
현대인의 성경 - 이와 같이 사람의 혀도 몸의 작은 부분에 불과하지만 그것을 잘못 사용하면 큰 손해를 가져옵니다. 작은 불씨가 큰 숲을 태우지 않습니까?
Новый Русский Перевод - Так же и язык: это маленький орган, но он много хвастается. Взгляни – большой лесной пожар начинается с маленькой искры.
Восточный перевод - Так же и язык: это маленький орган, но как велики его претензии! Взгляни, большой лесной пожар начинается с маленькой искры.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Так же и язык: это маленький орган, но как велики его претензии! Взгляни, большой лесной пожар начинается с маленькой искры.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Так же и язык: это маленький орган, но как велики его претензии! Взгляни, большой лесной пожар начинается с маленькой искры.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Il en va de même pour la langue : c’est un petit organe, mais elle se vante de grandes choses. Ne suffit-il pas d’un petit feu pour incendier une vaste forêt ?
リビングバイブル - 同様に舌もちっぽけなものですが、使い方を誤ると、途方もなく大きな害を生じます。小さな火が大きな森林を焼き尽くします。
Nestle Aland 28 - οὕτως καὶ ἡ γλῶσσα μικρὸν μέλος ἐστὶν καὶ μεγάλα αὐχεῖ. ἰδοὺ ἡλίκον πῦρ ἡλίκην ὕλην ἀνάπτει.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - οὕτως καὶ ἡ γλῶσσα μικρὸν μέλος ἐστὶν, καὶ μεγάλα αὐχεῖ. ἰδοὺ, ἡλίκον πῦρ, ἡλίκην ὕλην ἀνάπτει.
Nova Versão Internacional - Semelhantemente, a língua é um pequeno órgão do corpo, mas se vangloria de grandes coisas. Vejam como um grande bosque é incendiado por uma simples fagulha.
Hoffnung für alle - Genauso ist es mit unserer Zunge. So klein sie auch ist, so groß ist ihre Wirkung! Ein kleiner Funke setzt einen ganzen Wald in Brand.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Cũng vậy, cái lưỡi tuy rất nhỏ, nhưng có thể gây thiệt hại lớn lao. Một đốm lửa nhỏ có thể đốt cháy cả khu rừng rộng lớn.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ลิ้นก็เช่นกันเป็นอวัยวะเล็กๆ แต่ชอบคุยโวโอ้อวด คิดดูเถิด ประกายไฟนิดเดียวอาจเผาป่าใหญ่ได้
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ลิ้นก็เช่นเดียวกัน เป็นส่วนเล็กของร่างกาย แต่ยังโอ้อวดเรื่องที่ยิ่งใหญ่ ดูเถิดว่า ป่าใหญ่ถูกไฟไหม้ได้ด้วยเปลวไฟเล็กๆ

Ezekiel 29:3 - speak, and say, Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, that says, ‘My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.’
Exodus 5:2 - But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.”
Daniel 3:15 - Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well and good. But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”
Daniel 4:30 - and the king answered and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
Job 21:14 - They say to God, ‘Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
Job 21:15 - What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’
2 Kings 19:22 - “Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel!
2 Kings 19:23 - By your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest lodging place, its most fruitful forest.
2 Kings 19:24 - I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.’
2 Peter 2:18 - For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.
Exodus 15:9 - The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’
Job 22:17 - They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’
Revelation 13:5 - And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months.
Revelation 13:6 - It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven.
Jude 1:16 - These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.
Ezekiel 28:2 - “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God: “Because your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,’ yet you are but a man, and no god, though you make your heart like the heart of a god—
Jeremiah 18:18 - Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”
Psalms 12:2 - Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
Psalms 12:3 - May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,
Psalms 12:4 - those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is master over us?”
Psalms 10:3 - For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord.
Proverbs 12:18 - There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Psalms 52:1 - Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day.
Psalms 52:2 - Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
Proverbs 15:2 - The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
Psalms 73:8 - They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.
Psalms 73:9 - They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.
Proverbs 18:21 - Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Psalms 17:10 - They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.
Jeremiah 9:3 - They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:4 - Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.
Jeremiah 9:5 - Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity.
Jeremiah 9:6 - Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:7 - Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of my people?
Jeremiah 9:8 - Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.