21 You shall be (A)hidden from the lash of the tongue,
    and shall not fear destruction when it comes.

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20 In (A)the cover of your presence you hide them
    from the plots of men;
you (B)store them in your shelter
    from the strife of tongues.

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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! 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] For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, (D)full of deadly poison.

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Footnotes

  1. James 3:6 Or wheel of birth
  2. James 3:6 Greek Gehenna

18 (A)There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts,
    but the tongue of the wise brings (B)healing.

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(A)You will not fear (B)the terror of the night,
    nor the arrow that flies by day,
nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
    nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.

A thousand may fall at your side,
    ten thousand at your right hand,
    but it will not come near you.

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21 His (A)speech was (B)smooth as butter,
    yet war was in his heart;
his words were softer than oil,
    yet they were (C)drawn swords.

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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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17     no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed,
    and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord
    (A)and their vindication[a] from me, declares the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 54:17 Or righteousness

My soul is in the midst of (A)lions;
    I lie down amid fiery beasts—
the children of man, whose (B)teeth are spears and arrows,
    whose (C)tongues are sharp swords.

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