And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Ils se jouent les uns des autres, Et ne disent point la vérité; Ils exercent leur langue à mentir, Ils s'étudient à faire le mal.
KJV
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
o study to learn something in order to sin are engaged in a sinful study, according to the saying of Jer. 9:5, "They have taught their tongue to speak lies, they have labored to commit iniquity." Secondly, there may be sin by reason of the appetite or study directed to the learni…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)
etitu nec obsistentibus arduis difficultatibus revocentur, dicens: «Ut inique agerent laboraverunt (Jer. IX, 5) .» Illud quoque quis dixerit peccatoribus convenire, «itaque ego ipse mente servio legi Dei, carne autem legi peccati,» quos nec mente, nec carne Deo servire manifestu…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 126 (Migne)
t de quibusdam Scriptura: Docuerunt linguam suam loqui mendacium: ut inique agerent, laboraverunt (Jer., IX, 5) ; sed labor labiorum illorum operiet eos (Ps. CXXXIX, 10) . Quando fideles senioris nostri qui convenimus tam episcopi, quam abbates, et comites, et caeteri ejus fide…
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