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Proverbs 6:12
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Proverbs 6:12
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12 A scoundrel and a villain
goes around with crooked speech,(A)
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 You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.(A)
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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 Scoundrels concoct evil,
and their speech is like a scorching fire.(A)
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 you crooked speech,
and put devious talk far from you.(A)
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 idle, gadding about from house to house, and they are not merely idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not say.(A)
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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 There are also many rebellious people, idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision;(A) 11 they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what it is not right to teach.(B)
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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 Some even from your own group will come distorting the truth in order to entice the disciples to follow 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 heed to a mischievous tongue.
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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 hatred of evil.
Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
and perverted speech I hate.(A)
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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Psalm 52:2-4
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Psalm 52:2-4
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2 you are plotting destruction.
Your tongue is like a sharp razor,
you worker of treachery.(A)
3 You love evil more than good
and lying more than speaking the truth. Selah(B)
4 You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.(C)
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. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.[a](A)
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- 3.6 Gk Gehenna
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 saves them,
but the treacherous are taken captive by their schemes.(A)
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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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