Proverbs 6:12
English Standard Version
Matthew 12:34
English Standard Version
34 (A)You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, (B)when you are evil? (C)For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Read full chapter
Proverbs 16:27
English Standard Version
Footnotes
- Proverbs 16:27 Hebrew what is on his lips
Proverbs 4:24
English Standard Version
1 Timothy 5:13
English Standard Version
13 Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also (A)gossips and (B)busybodies, saying what they should not.
Read full chapter
Titus 1:10-11
English Standard Version
10 For there are many who are insubordinate, (A)empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of (B)the circumcision party.[a] 11 They must be silenced, since (C)they are upsetting whole families by teaching (D)for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Titus 1:10 Or especially those of the circumcision
Acts 20:30
English Standard Version
30 and (A)from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Read full chapter
Proverbs 17:4
English Standard Version
4 An evildoer listens to wicked lips,
and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
Proverbs 8:13
English Standard Version
13 (A)The fear of the Lord is (B)hatred of evil.
(C)Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
and (D)perverted speech I hate.
Psalm 59:7
English Standard Version
7 There they are, (A)bellowing with their mouths
with (B)swords in their lips—
for (C)“Who,” they think,[a] “will hear us?”
Footnotes
- Psalm 59:7 Hebrew lacks they think
Psalm 52:2-4
English Standard Version
2 Your (A)tongue plots destruction,
like (B)a sharp razor, you (C)worker of deceit.
3 You love evil more than good,
and (D)lying more than speaking what is right. Selah
4 You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.
James 3:6
English Standard Version
6 And (A)the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, (B)staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life,[a] and set on fire by hell.[b]
Read full chapter
Proverbs 11:6
English Standard Version
6 (A)The righteousness of the upright delivers them,
but the treacherous (B)are taken captive by their lust.
Proverbs 6:14
English Standard Version
Proverbs 2:12
English Standard Version
12 delivering you from the way of evil,
from men of perverted speech,
Psalm 73:8-9
English Standard Version
8 They scoff and (A)speak with malice;
loftily they threaten oppression.
9 They set their mouths against the heavens,
and their tongue struts through the earth.
Psalm 36:3
English Standard Version
Psalm 10:3
English Standard Version
3 For the wicked (A)boasts of the desires of his soul,
and the one greedy for gain (B)curses[a] and (C)renounces the Lord.
Footnotes
- Psalm 10:3 Or and he blesses the one greedy for gain
James 1:21
English Standard Version
21 Therefore (A)put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with (B)meekness the implanted word, (C)which is able to save your souls.
Read full chapter
Jeremiah 24:8-10
English Standard Version
8 “But thus says the Lord: Like (A)the bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat (B)Zedekiah the king of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who (C)dwell in the land of Egypt. 9 I will make them (D)a horror[a] to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be (E)a reproach, (F)a byword, (G)a taunt, and (H)a curse in all the places where I shall drive them. 10 And I will send (I)sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.”
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Jeremiah 24:9 Compare Septuagint; Hebrew horror for evil
Jeremiah 24:2
English Standard Version
2 One basket had very good figs, (A)like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had (B)very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.
Read full chapter
1 Samuel 17:28
English Standard Version
28 Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.”
Read full chapterThe Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
Bible Gateway Recommends
