Proverbs 12:13
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13 (A)The wicked is ensnared by the transgression of his lips,
(B)But the righteous will come through trouble.
Proverbs 21:23
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23 (A)Whoever guards his mouth and tongue
Keeps his soul from troubles.
Proverbs 6:2
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2 You are snared by the words of your mouth;
You are taken by the words of your mouth.
2 Peter 2:9
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9 then (A)the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,
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Proverbs 11:8
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8 (A)The righteous is delivered from trouble,
And it comes to the wicked instead.
Psalm 64:8
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8 So He will make them stumble over their own tongue;
(A)All who see them shall flee away.
Romans 8:35-37
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35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:
(A)“For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
37 (B)Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
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Matthew 27:25
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25 And all the people answered and said, (A)“His blood be on us and on our children.”
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Daniel 6:24
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Darius Honors God
24 And the king gave the command, (A)and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions—them, (B)their children, and their wives; and the lions overpowered them, and broke all their bones in pieces before they ever came to the bottom of the den.
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Ecclesiastes 7:18
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18 It is good that you grasp this,
And also not remove your hand from the other;
For he who (A)fears God will [a]escape them all.
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 7:18 Lit. come forth from all of them
Proverbs 18:6-7
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6 A fool’s lips enter into contention,
And his mouth calls for blows.
7 (A)A fool’s mouth is his destruction,
And his lips are the snare of his (B)soul.
Proverbs 15:2
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2 The tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly,
(A)But the mouth of fools pours forth foolishness.
Psalm 34:19
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Psalm 5:6
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6 You shall destroy those who speak falsehood;
The Lord abhors the (A)bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
1 Kings 2:23
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23 Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, (A)“May God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life!
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2 Samuel 4:9
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9 But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As the Lord lives, (A)who has redeemed my life from all adversity,
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Genesis 48:16
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16 The Angel (A)who has redeemed me from all evil,
Bless the lads;
Let (B)my name be named upon them,
And the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
And let them (C)grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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