Psalm 64:3
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James 3:6-8
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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] 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, (C)full of deadly poison.
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Proverbs 12:18
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18 (A)There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts,
but the tongue of the wise brings (B)healing.
Psalm 58:7
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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.
Jeremiah 9:3
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3 (A)They bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong[a] in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
(B)and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:3 Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong
Isaiah 54:17
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17 no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed,
and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord
(A)and their vindication[a] from me, declares the Lord.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 54:17 Or righteousness
Psalm 11:2
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2 for behold, the wicked (A)bend the bow;
(B)they have fitted their arrow to the string
to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart;
Proverbs 30:14
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14 There are those whose teeth are (A)swords,
whose (B)fangs are knives,
to (C)devour the poor from off the earth,
the needy from among mankind.
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