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Job 15:5
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Job 15:5
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5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Job 15:5
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Job 15:5
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James 3:5-8
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James 3:5-8
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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! 6 And (B)the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, (C)staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life,[a] and set on fire by hell.[b] 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, (D)full of deadly poison.
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James 3:5-8
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James 3:5-8
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5 Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts.(A) Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. 6 The tongue also is a fire,(B) a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body,(C) sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.(D)
7 All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and sea creatures are being tamed and have been tamed by mankind, 8 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.(E)
James 1:26
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James 1:26
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26 If anyone thinks he is religious (A)and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's (B)religion is worthless.
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James 1:26
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James 1:26
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26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues(A) deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless.
Luke 6:45
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Luke 6:45
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45 (A)The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces (B)evil, (C)for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
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Luke 6:45
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Luke 6:45
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45 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.(A)
Jeremiah 9:8
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Jeremiah 9:8
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8 (A)Their tongue is a deadly arrow;
(B)it speaks deceitfully;
with his mouth (C)each speaks peace to his neighbor,
but in his heart (D)he plans an ambush for him.
Jeremiah 9:8
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Jeremiah 9:8
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Jeremiah 9:3-5
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Jeremiah 9:3-5
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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.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:3 Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong
Jeremiah 9:3-5
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Jeremiah 9:3-5
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3 “They make ready their tongue
like a bow, to shoot lies;(A)
it is not by truth
that they triumph[a] in the land.
They go from one sin to another;
they do not acknowledge(B) me,”
declares the Lord.
4 “Beware of your friends;(C)
do not trust anyone in your clan.(D)
For every one of them is a deceiver,[b](E)
and every friend a slanderer.(F)
5 Friend deceives friend,(G)
and no one speaks the truth.(H)
They have taught their tongues to lie;(I)
they weary themselves with sinning.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:3 Or lies; / they are not valiant for truth
- Jeremiah 9:4 Or a deceiving Jacob
Psalm 120:2-3
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Psalm 120:2-3
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2 Deliver me, O Lord,
from lying lips,
from a deceitful tongue.
3 What shall be given to you,
(A)and what more shall be done to you,
you deceitful tongue?
Psalm 120:2-3
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Psalm 120:2-3
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3 What will he do to you,
and what more besides,
you deceitful tongue?
Psalm 64:3
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Psalm 64:3
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Psalm 64:3
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Psalm 64:3
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Psalm 52:2-4
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Psalm 52:2-4
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2 Your (A)tongue plots destruction,
like (B)a sharp razor, you (C)worker of deceit.
3 You love evil more than good,
and (D)lying more than speaking what is right. Selah
4 You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.
Psalm 52:2-4
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Psalm 52:2-4
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Footnotes
- Psalm 52:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 5.
Psalm 50:19-20
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Psalm 50:19-20
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19 “You give your mouth free rein for evil,
(A)and your tongue frames deceit.
20 You sit and speak against your brother;
you slander your own mother's son.
Psalm 50:19-20
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Psalm 50:19-20
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Job 9:22-24
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Job 9:22-24
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22 It is all one; therefore I say,
‘He (A)destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
23 When (B)disaster brings sudden death,
he mocks at the calamity[a] of the innocent.
24 (C)The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;
he (D)covers the faces of its judges—
(E)if it is not he, who then is it?
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- Job 9:23 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
Job 9:22-24
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Job 9:22-24
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Job 5:13
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Job 5:13
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13 He (A)catches the wise in their own craftiness,
and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
Job 5:13
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Job 5:13
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Mark 7:21-22
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Mark 7:21-22
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21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed,(A) malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
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