James 3:5
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5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet (A)it boasts of great things.
How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!
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Proverbs 18:21
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21 (A)Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Jeremiah 9:3-8
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3 (A)They bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong[a] in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
(B)and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
4 (C)Let everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every (D)brother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor (E)goes about as a slanderer.
5 Everyone deceives his neighbor,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
they weary themselves committing iniquity.
6 Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit,
(F)they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.
7 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts:
“Behold, (G)I will refine them and (H)test them,
for what else can I do, (I)because of my people?
8 (J)Their tongue is a deadly arrow;
(K)it speaks deceitfully;
with his mouth (L)each speaks peace to his neighbor,
but in his heart (M)he plans an ambush for him.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:3 Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong
Proverbs 12:18
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18 (A)There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts,
but the tongue of the wise brings (B)healing.
Proverbs 15:2
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2 The tongue of the wise commends knowledge,
but (A)the mouths of fools pour out folly.
Psalm 17:10
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Psalm 73:8-9
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8 They scoff and (A)speak with malice;
loftily they threaten oppression.
9 They set their mouths against the heavens,
and their tongue struts through the earth.
Psalm 52:1-2
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The Steadfast Love of God Endures
To the choirmaster. A Maskil[a] of David, when (A)Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
52 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?
The steadfast love of God endures all the day.
2 Your (B)tongue plots destruction,
like (C)a sharp razor, you (D)worker of deceit.
Footnotes
- Psalm 52:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Psalm 12:2-4
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2 Everyone (A)utters lies to his neighbor;
with (B)flattering lips and (C)a double heart they speak.
3 May the Lord cut off all (D)flattering lips,
the tongue that makes (E)great boasts,
4 those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail,
our lips are with us; who is master over us?”
Jude 16
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16 These are grumblers, malcontents, (A)following their own sinful desires; (B)they are loud-mouthed boasters, (C)showing favoritism to gain advantage.
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Jeremiah 18:18
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18 Then they said, (A)“Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, (B)for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. (C)Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”
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Revelation 13:5-6
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5 And the beast was given (A)a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for (B)forty-two months. 6 It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling,[a] that is, those who dwell in heaven.
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- Revelation 13:6 Or tabernacle
Psalm 10:3
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3 For the wicked (A)boasts of the desires of his soul,
and the one greedy for gain (B)curses[a] and (C)renounces the Lord.
Footnotes
- Psalm 10:3 Or and he blesses the one greedy for gain
Ezekiel 28:2
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2 (A)“Son of man, say to (B)the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God:
(C)“Because your heart is proud,
and (D)you have said, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of the gods,
in the heart of the seas,’
yet (E)you are but a man, and no god,
(F)though you make your heart like the heart of a god—
2 Peter 2:18
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18 For, (A)speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely (B)escaping from those who live in error.
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2 Kings 19:22-24
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22 “Whom have you (A)mocked and (B)reviled?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes to the heights?
Against (C)the Holy One of Israel!
23 (D)By your messengers you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, (E)‘With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of (F)Lebanon;
I felled its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses;
I entered its farthest lodging place,
its most (G)fruitful forest.
24 I dug wells
and drank foreign waters,
and I dried up with the sole of my foot
all the streams (H)of Egypt.’
Daniel 4:30
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30 and the king answered and said, (A)“Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by (B)my mighty power as a royal residence and for (C)the glory of my majesty?”
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Job 22:17
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Footnotes
- Job 22:17 Hebrew them
Job 21:14-15
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14 They say to God, (A)‘Depart from us!
We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
15 (B)What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
And what (C)profit do we get if we pray to him?’
Exodus 15:9
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9 The enemy said, (A)‘I will pursue, I will overtake,
I (B)will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them.
I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’