⁴ The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.

⁵ Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

¹¹ The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

⁶ Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

¹⁴ The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

¹⁴ But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

³⁸ He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

³⁹ (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

³⁴ O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

² I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: