Job 15:5
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5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
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 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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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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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 9:3-5
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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
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 64:3
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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 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.
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?
Footnotes
- Job 9:23 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
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 12:6
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6 (A)The tents of robbers are at peace,
and those who provoke God are secure,
who bring their god in their hand.[a]
Footnotes
- Job 12:6 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
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