Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

Cross-reference

Isaiah 59:7 Parallel

Isaiah 59:7 expands on the same catalog of sins: feet running to evil, shedding innocent blood — continuing the description of Israel's corruption.

Isaiah 1:15 Parallel

Isaiah 1:15 repeats 'hands full of blood' and God hiding eyes, directly reinforcing the same image of guilt blocking prayer.

Isaiah 32:7 Parallel

Isaiah 32:7 describes the churl devising wicked devices with lying words to destroy the poor, paralleling both lies and evil deeds in Isaiah 59:3.

Isaiah 1:21 Parallel

Isaiah 1:21 depicts Jerusalem's fall from righteousness to murderers, illustrating the bloodstained hands of Isaiah 59:3.

Isaiah 30:9 Parallel

Isaiah 30:9 calls Israel 'lying children,' matching the lies on lips in Isaiah 59:3, though in a broader context of rebellion.

Ezekiel 9:9 Parallel

Ezekiel 9:9 says the land is filled with bloodshed — a direct parallel to Isaiah's accusation of blood on hands.

Ezekiel 7:23 declares the land full of bloodshed, echoing Isaiah's charge of hands defiled with blood.

Jeremiah 22:17 denounces shedding innocent blood and dishonest gain — the same violence Isaiah points to with blood-stained hands.

Jeremiah 9:3-6 expands on pervasive deceit—everyone lies to neighbor—mirroring the lips of lies here.

Ezekiel 22:2 calls Jerusalem the 'bloody city', matching Isaiah's indictment of hands stained with blood.

Jeremiah 2:34 also condemns bloodshed — innocent blood found on skirts, mirroring Isaiah's hands defiled with blood.

Hosea 4:2 Parallel

Hosea 4:2 lists murder and bloodshed alongside lying, directly paralleling Isaiah's hands defiled with blood and lying lips.

Micah 3:10-12 accuses leaders of building Zion with bloodshed — the same violent sin Isaiah condemns with blood on hands.

Micah 6:12 Parallel

Micah 6:12 combines violence and deceitful tongue—almost identical to the hands and lips here.

Micah 7:2 Parallel

Micah 7:2 says people lie in wait for blood, hunting each other — mirroring Isaiah's charge of hands defiled with blood.

Romans 3:13 Allusion

Romans 3:13 quotes Psalm 5:9 and 140:3 about throats like open tombs and deceitful tongues — a strong thematic echo of the lying lips and wicked tongue.

Ephesians 4:25 commands putting away lying and speaking truth — directly contrasting the lying lips condemned here, urging the opposite behavior.

2 Kings 5:27 shows the consequence—leprosy for Gehazi's lie—illustrating judgment on such sin.

Proverbs 6:17 lists a lying tongue and hands that shed innocent blood — exactly the two sins (blood on hands, lies on lips) in Isaiah 59:3.

Proverbs 2:12 warns against the man who speaks froward (perverse) things, matching the 'tongue mutters perverseness' in Isaiah 59:3.

Psalm 140:3 Parallel

Psalm 140:3 describes tongues sharpened with poison under lips, directly paralleling the sinful speech (lies, perverseness) in Isaiah 59:3.

Psalm 50:19 Parallel

Psalm 50:19 says the tongue frames deceit—a direct parallel to the lying lips here.

2 Kings 5:22 gives the specific lie of Gehazi to Naaman—an example of the lying tongue here.

Ezekiel 13:8 condemns false prophets uttering falsehood, a specific instance of the lying speech denounced here.

Jeremiah 7:8 similarly condemns trusting in deceptive words, echoing the lying tongue condemned here.

Ezekiel 22:29 Related theme

Ezekiel 22:29 describes similar social sins (oppression, robbery) showing hands defiled by injustice — echoes the 'hands defiled with blood' theme.

Hosea 11:12 Parallel

Hosea 11:12 accuses Ephraim of encircling God with lies and deceit — matching 'lips have spoken lies' in a parallel indictment of Israel.

Micah 2:1 Parallel

Micah 2:1 condemns those who devise evil and work it with their hands — connecting directly to the 'hands defiled with blood' imagery.

Proverbs 19:1 contrasts the poor with integrity from the one perverse in lips, echoing the perverse speech in Isaiah 59:3.

Matthew 15:11 Related theme

Matthew 15:11 teaches that what comes out of the mouth defiles a person — reinforcing that sinful speech (as in Isaiah 59:3) is a source of defilement.

Acts 20:30 Related theme

Acts 20:30 warns of men speaking perverse things to draw disciples away — a New Testament example of the deceitful speech condemned here.

1 Timothy 4:2 describes liars with seared consciences—a NT parallel to the lying condemned here.