Proverbs 6:12
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Matthew 12:34
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34 (A)Brood[a] of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? (B)For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
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- Matthew 12:34 Offspring
Proverbs 16:27
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- Proverbs 16:27 Lit. A man of Belial
Proverbs 4:24
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24 Put away from you a [a]deceitful mouth,
And put perverse lips far from you.
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- Proverbs 4:24 devious
1 Timothy 5:13
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13 And besides they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
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Titus 1:10-11
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The Elders’ Task
10 For there are many insubordinate, both idle (A)talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, 11 whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, (B)for the sake of dishonest gain.
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Acts 20:30
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30 Also (A)from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking [a]perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.
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- Acts 20:30 misleading
Proverbs 17:4
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4 An evildoer gives heed to false lips;
A liar listens eagerly to a [a]spiteful tongue.
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- Proverbs 17:4 Lit. destructive
Proverbs 8:13
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13 (A)The fear of the Lord is to hate evil;
(B)Pride and arrogance and the evil way
And (C)the perverse mouth I hate.
Psalm 59:7
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Psalm 52:2-4
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2 Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
3 You love evil more than good,
Lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah
4 You love all devouring words,
You deceitful tongue.
Proverbs 11:6
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6 The righteousness of the upright will deliver them,
But the unfaithful will be caught by their lust.
Proverbs 6:14
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Proverbs 2:12
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12 To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things,
Psalm 73:8-9
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8 (A)They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression;
They (B)speak [a]loftily.
9 They set their mouth (C)against the heavens,
And their tongue walks through the earth.
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- Psalm 73:8 Proudly
Psalm 36:3
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3 The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit;
(A)He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
Psalm 10:7
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7 (A)His mouth is full of cursing and (B)deceit and oppression;
Under his tongue is trouble and iniquity.
Psalm 10:3
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3 For the wicked (A)boasts of his heart’s desire;
[a]He (B)blesses the greedy and renounces the Lord.
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- Psalm 10:3 Or The greedy man curses and spurns the Lord
James 1:21
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Doers—Not Hearers Only
21 Therefore (A)lay aside all filthiness and [a]overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, (B)which is able to save your souls.
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- James 1:21 abundance
Jeremiah 24:8-10
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8 ‘And as the bad (A)figs which cannot be eaten, they are so bad’—surely thus says the Lord—‘so will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes, the (B)residue of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and (C)those who dwell in the land of Egypt. 9 I will deliver them to (D)trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, (E)to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them. 10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they are [a]consumed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’ ”
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- Jeremiah 24:10 destroyed
Jeremiah 24:2
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2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten, they were so (A)bad.
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1 Samuel 17:28
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28 Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s (A)anger was aroused against David, and he said, “Why did you come down here? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the insolence of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.”
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