Psalm 120:4
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James 3:5-8
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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] 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, (D)full of deadly poison.
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Psalm 45:5
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5 Your arrows are sharp
in the heart of the king's enemies;
the peoples fall under you.
Revelation 21:8
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8 (A)But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, (B)their portion will be in (C)the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is (D)the second death.”
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Proverbs 19:9
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Proverbs 19:5
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Proverbs 18:21
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21 (A)Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Proverbs 18:8
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8 (A)The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels;
they go down into (B)the inner parts of the body.
Proverbs 16:27
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Footnotes
- Proverbs 16:27 Hebrew what is on his lips
Proverbs 12:22
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22 (A)Lying lips are (B)an abomination to the Lord,
(C)but those who act faithfully are his delight.
Proverbs 11:18
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18 The wicked earns deceptive wages,
but one who (A)sows righteousness gets a sure reward.
Proverbs 11:12
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12 Whoever (A)belittles his neighbor lacks sense,
but a man of understanding remains silent.
Proverbs 11:9
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9 With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor,
but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.
Psalm 140:9-11
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9 As for the head of those who surround me,
let (A)the mischief of their lips overwhelm them!
10 Let (B)burning coals fall upon them!
Let them be cast into fire,
into miry pits, no more to rise!
11 Let not the slanderer be established in the land;
let evil hunt down the violent man speedily!
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 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 52:5
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5 But God will break you down forever;
he will snatch and (A)tear you from your tent;
he will uproot you from (B)the land of the living. Selah
Psalm 7:13
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Deuteronomy 32:23-24
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23 “‘And I will heap disasters upon them;
(A)I will spend my arrows on them;
24 they shall be wasted with hunger,
and devoured by plague
and poisonous pestilence;
I will send (B)the teeth of beasts against them,
with the venom of (C)things that crawl in the dust.
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