Proverbs 6:12
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Matthew 12:34
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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.
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Proverbs 16:27
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- Proverbs 16:27 Hebrew what is on his lips
Proverbs 4:24
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1 Timothy 5:13
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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.
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Titus 1:10-11
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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.
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- Titus 1:10 Or especially those of the circumcision
Acts 20:30
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30 and (A)from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.
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Proverbs 17:4
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4 An evildoer listens to wicked lips,
and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
Proverbs 8:13
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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
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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
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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
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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]
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Proverbs 11:6
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6 (A)The righteousness of the upright delivers them,
but the treacherous (B)are taken captive by their lust.
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