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Proverbs 6:12
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Proverbs 6:12
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12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
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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 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
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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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27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
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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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24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
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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 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought 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 unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
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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 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away 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 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
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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 The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
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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 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
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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 The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
3 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
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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.
James 3:6
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James 3:6
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6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
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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 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
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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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