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Psalm 41:6

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

4I said, “LORD, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”
5My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”
6If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
7All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
8“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”
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A visitor speaks falsehood and carries malice outside, exposing how a visit during illness can become another source of harm.

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Where else Scripture says this

11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 12:2Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.Both passages connect false speech toward another person with a heart that conceals what is within.
Luke 11:53–54As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him,Both describe hostile encounters involving speech, though Luke’s supplied words describe angry questioning rather than a visitor spreading falsehood.
Proverbs 26:24A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.Both describe a person whose spoken words conceal the evil harbored in his heart.
Mark 7:20He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.Both concern evil coming from within a person, with the psalm describing the false speech through which it spreads.
Luke 20:20–23They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and …Both describe deceptive contact with someone, concealing hostile intent beneath an outward appearance.
Psalm 144:8whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.Both identify falsehood in the mouths of people whose conduct threatens another person.
Luke 14:1When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.Both place scrutiny within a personal encounter, though Luke’s supplied verse describes watching without mentioning false speech.
Psalm 10:7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.Both link deceitful speech with iniquity, showing harm expressed through a person’s mouth.
Nehemiah 6:1–14Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left …Both settings involve enemies receiving information, though Nehemiah’s supplied verse reports construction progress without describing a deceptive visit.
2 Corinthians 11:26I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the …Both include danger from deceptive people, whether a visitor speaking falsehood or those Paul calls false brothers.
Jeremiah 20:10For I have heard the defaming of many: “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. …Both describe malicious speech from people with personal access to someone whose downfall they desire.
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A visit can deepen suffering when false words follow it. This psalm brings that wrong before God without softening the visitor’s deceit.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).