Job 9:20
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20 Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me;
though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
Job 34:35
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35 ‘Job speaks without knowledge;
his words are without insight.’(A)
Job 15:5-6
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5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
and you choose the tongue of the crafty.(A)
6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I;
your own lips testify against you.(B)
James 3:2
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2 For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is mature,[a] able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle.(A)
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- 3.2 Gk a mature man
1 Timothy 6:5
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5 and wrangling among those who are depraved in mind and bereft of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.[a](A)
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- 6.5 Other ancient authorities add Withdraw yourself from such people
Philippians 3:12-15
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Pressing toward the Goal
12 Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal,[a] but I press on to lay hold of that for which Christ[b] has laid hold of me.(A) 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider that I have laid hold[c] of it, but one thing I have laid hold of: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,(B) 14 I press on toward the goal, toward the prize of the heavenly[d] call of God in Christ Jesus.(C) 15 Let those of us, then, who are mature[e] think this way, and if you think differently about anything, this, too, God will reveal to you.(D)
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Luke 16:15
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15 So he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts, for what is prized by humans is an abomination in the sight of God.(A)
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Luke 10:29
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29 But wanting to vindicate himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”(A)
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Matthew 12:36-37
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36 I tell you, on the day of judgment you will have to give an account for every careless word you utter, 37 for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
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Isaiah 6:5
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5 And I said, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”(A)
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Proverbs 17:20
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20 The crooked of mind do not prosper,
and the perverse of tongue fall into calamity.(A)
Proverbs 10:19
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19 When words are many, transgression is not lacking,
but the prudent are restrained in speech.(A)
Psalm 143:2
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2 Do not enter into judgment with your servant,
for no one living is righteous before you.(A)
Psalm 130:3
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3 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
Lord, who could stand?(A)
Job 35:16
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16 Job opens his mouth in empty talk;
he multiplies words without knowledge.”(A)
Job 33:8-13
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8 “Surely, you have spoken in my hearing,
and I have heard the sound of your words.
9 You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression;
I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.(A)
10 Look, he finds occasions against me;
he counts me as his enemy;(B)
11 he puts my feet in the stocks
and watches all my paths.’(C)
12 “But in this you are not right. I will answer you:
God is greater than any mortal.
13 Why do you contend against him,
saying, ‘He will answer none of my[a] words’?(D)
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Job 32:1-2
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Elihu Rebukes Job’s Friends
32 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.(A) 2 Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became angry. He was angry at Job because he justified himself rather than God;(B)
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Job 9:2
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2 “Indeed, I know that this is so,
but how can a mortal be just before God?(A)
Job 4:17
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Job 1:1
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Job and His Family
1 There was once a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.(A)
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