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Proverbs 6:12
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Proverbs 6:12
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Proverbs 6:12
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Proverbs 6:12
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12 A troublemaker and a villain,
who goes about with a corrupt mouth,
Matthew 12:34
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Matthew 12:34
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34 (A)You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, (B)when you are evil? (C)For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
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Matthew 12:34
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Matthew 12:34
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34 You brood of vipers,(A) how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks(B) what the heart is full of.
Proverbs 16:27
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Proverbs 16:27
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- Proverbs 16:27 Hebrew what is on his lips
Proverbs 16:27
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Proverbs 16:27
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Proverbs 4:24
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Proverbs 4:24
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Proverbs 4:24
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Proverbs 4:24
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24 Keep your mouth free of perversity;
keep corrupt talk far from your lips.
1 Timothy 5:13
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1 Timothy 5:13
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13 Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also (A)gossips and (B)busybodies, saying what they should not.
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1 Timothy 5:13
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1 Timothy 5:13
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13 Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also busybodies(A) who talk nonsense,(B) saying things they ought not to.
Titus 1:10-11
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Titus 1:10-11
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10 For there are many who are insubordinate, (A)empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of (B)the circumcision party.[a] 11 They must be silenced, since (C)they are upsetting whole families by teaching (D)for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.
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- Titus 1:10 Or especially those of the circumcision
Titus 1:10-11
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Titus 1:10-11
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Rebuking Those Who Fail to Do Good
10 For there are many rebellious people, full of meaningless talk(A) and deception, especially those of the circumcision group.(B) 11 They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households(C) by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest gain.
Acts 20:30
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Acts 20:30
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30 and (A)from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.
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Acts 20:30
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Acts 20:30
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30 Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples(A) after them.
Proverbs 17:4
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Proverbs 17:4
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4 An evildoer listens to wicked lips,
and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
Proverbs 17:4
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Proverbs 17:4
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4 A wicked person listens to deceitful lips;
a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.
Proverbs 8:13
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Proverbs 8:13
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13 (A)The fear of the Lord is (B)hatred of evil.
(C)Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
and (D)perverted speech I hate.
Proverbs 8:13
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Proverbs 8:13
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Psalm 59:7
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Psalm 59:7
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7 There they are, (A)bellowing with their mouths
with (B)swords in their lips—
for (C)“Who,” they think,[a] “will hear us?”
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- Psalm 59:7 Hebrew lacks they think
Psalm 59:7
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Psalm 59:7
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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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- Psalm 52:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 5.
James 3:6
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James 3:6
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James 3:6
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James 3:6
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6 The tongue also is a fire,(A) a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body,(B) sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.(C)
Proverbs 11:6
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Proverbs 11:6
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6 (A)The righteousness of the upright delivers them,
but the treacherous (B)are taken captive by their lust.
Proverbs 11:6
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Proverbs 11:6
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6 The righteousness of the upright delivers them,
but the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires.(A)
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