they bend.

Jeremiah 9:5, 8
Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity. . . .

Psalm 52:2-4
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. . . .

Psalm 64:3, 4
who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows, . . .

Psalm 120:2-4
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue. . . .

Isaiah 59:3-5, 13-15
For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice. . . .

Micah 7:3-5
Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe; when the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together. . . .

Romans 3:13
Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. The venom of vipers is on their lips.

valiant.

Matthew 10:31-33
So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. . . .

Mark 8:38
For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in His Father's glory with the holy angels."

Romans 1:16
I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.

Philippians 1:28
without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. This is a clear sign of their destruction but of your salvation, and it is from God.

Jude 1:3
Beloved, although I made every effort to write you about the salvation we share, I felt it necessary to write and urge you to contend earnestly for the faith entrusted once for all to the saints.

Revelation 12:11
They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; and they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.

for they.

Jeremiah 7:26
Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.'

2 Timothy 3:13
while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

they know.

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 do not know how to do good."

Jeremiah 22:16
He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well. Is this not what it means to know Me?" declares the LORD.

Judges 2:10
After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up, who did not know the LORD or the works He had done for Israel.

1 Samuel 2:12
Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD

Hosea 4:1-3
Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the inhabitants of the land: There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land! . . .

John 8:54, 55
Jesus answered, "If I glorify Myself, My glory means nothing. The One who glorifies Me is My Father, of whom you say 'He is our God.' . . .

John 17:3
Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

Romans 1:28
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

2 Corinthians 4:4-6
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. . . .