Proverbs 14:3
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3 By the mouth of a fool comes (A)a rod for his back,[a]
(B)but the lips of the wise will preserve them.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 14:3 Or In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride
Proverbs 12:6
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James 3:5-6
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5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet (A)it boasts of great things.
How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6 And (B)the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, (C)staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life,[a] and set on fire by hell.[b]
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Revelation 12:11
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11 And (A)they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for (B)they loved not their lives (C)even unto death.
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Revelation 3:10
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10 (A)Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try (B)those who dwell on the earth.
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2 Peter 2:18
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18 For, (A)speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely (B)escaping from those who live in error.
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Romans 10:9-10
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9 because, if (A)you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and (B)believe in your heart (C)that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
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Daniel 7:20
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20 (A)and about the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn that came up and before which three of them fell, the horn that had eyes and a mouth that spoke great things, and that seemed greater than its companions.
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Proverbs 28:25
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Proverbs 22:8
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Proverbs 21:24
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24 (A)“Scoffer” is the name of the arrogant, haughty man
who acts with arrogant pride.
Proverbs 18:6
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6 A fool's lips walk into a fight,
and his mouth invites (A)a beating.
Psalm 57:4
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4 My soul is in the midst of (A)lions;
I lie down amid fiery beasts—
the children of man, whose (B)teeth are spears and arrows,
whose (C)tongues are sharp swords.
Psalm 52:1-2
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The Steadfast Love of God Endures
To the choirmaster. A Maskil[a] of David, when (A)Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
52 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?
The steadfast love of God endures all the day.
2 Your (B)tongue plots destruction,
like (C)a sharp razor, you (D)worker of deceit.
Footnotes
- Psalm 52:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Psalm 12:3
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Job 5:21
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21 You shall be (A)hidden from the lash of the tongue,
and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
1 Samuel 2:3
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3 Talk no more so very proudly,
let not arrogance come from your mouth;
for the Lord is a God of knowledge,
and by him actions are weighed.
Revelation 15:5-6
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5 After this I looked, and (A)the sanctuary of (B)the tent[a] of witness in heaven was opened, 6 and out of the sanctuary came (C)the seven angels with the seven plagues, clothed in pure, bright (D)linen, (E)with golden sashes around their chests.
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- Revelation 15:5 Or tabernacle
Psalm 31:18
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18 Let the lying lips be mute,
which (A)speak (B)insolently against the righteous
in pride and contempt.
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