THEOSISProverbs 12:19Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The lip of truth shall be steadfast for ever: but he that is a hasty witness, frameth a lying tongue.
שְֽׂפַת־אֱ֭מֶת תִּכּ֣וֹן לָעַ֑ד וְעַד־אַ֝רְגִּ֗יעָה לְשׁ֣וֹן שָֽׁקֶר׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 19:9A false witness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh lies, shall perish.
- Ps 52 (51):4
- Ps 52 (51):5
- Zech 1:4Be not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye from your evil ways, and from your wicked thoughts: but they did not give ear, neither did they hearken to me, saith the Lord.
- Zech 1:6But yet my words, and my ordinances, which I gave in charge to my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers, and they returned, and said: As the Lord of hosts thought to do to us according to our ways, and according to our devices, so he hath done to us.
- Job 20:5That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.
- Matt 24:35Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass.
- Acts 5:3But Peter said: Ananias, why hath Satan tempted thy heart, that thou shouldst lie to the Holy Ghost and by fraud keep part of the price of the land?