Proverbs 12:23

Proverbs 12:23
A sharp man keeps back his knowledge; but the heart of foolish men makes clear their foolish thoughts.

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Genesis 2:10
And a river went out of Eden giving water to the garden; and from there it was parted and became four streams.

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Genesis 24:2
And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg:

Genesis 24:10
And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all sorts of good things of his master's, and went to Mesopotamia, to the town of Nahor.

Genesis 39:4
And having a high opinion of Joseph as his servant, he made him the overseer of his house and gave him control over all he had.

Genesis 39:22
And the keeper of the prison put all the prisoners under Joseph's control, and he was responsible for whatever was done there.

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Genesis 42:7
And when Joseph saw his brothers, it was clear to him who they were, but he made himself strange to them, and talking roughly to them, said, Where do you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to get food.

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Leviticus 19:16
Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.

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1 Samuel 9:27
And on their way down to the end of the town, Samuel said to Saul, Give your servant orders to go on in front of us, (so he went on,) but you keep here, so that I may give you the word of God.

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1 Kings 11:28
And Jeroboam was an able and responsible man; and Solomon saw that he was a good worker and made him overseer of all the work given to the sons of Joseph.

Proverbs 10:4
He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.

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Nehemiah 2:7
Further, I said to the king, If it is the king's pleasure, let letters be given to me for the rulers across the river, so that they may let me go through till I come to Judah;

Proverbs 11:29
The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.

Luke 14:28
For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?

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Nehemiah 6:2
Sanballat and Geshem sent to me saying, Come, let us have a meeting in one of the little towns in the lowland of Ono. But their purpose was to do me evil.

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Nehemiah 6:3
And I sent men to them saying, I am doing a great work, so that it is not possible for me to come down: is the work to be stopped while I go away from it and come down to you?

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Job 32:6
And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, made answer and said, I am young, and you are very old, so I was in fear, and kept myself from putting my knowledge before you.

Job 32:18
For I am full of words, I am unable to keep in my breath any longer:

Job 32:19
My stomach is like wine which is unable to get out; like skins full of new wine, it is almost burst.

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Proverbs 10:23
It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.

Proverbs 22:15
Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.

Proverbs 24:9
The purpose of the foolish is sin: and the hater of authority is disgusting to others.

Proverbs 27:22
Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.

Ecclesiastes 7:25
I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.

1 Peter 2:15
Because it is God's pleasure that foolish and narrow-minded men may be put to shame by your good behaviour:

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Proverbs 11:7
At the death of an upright man his hope does not come to an end, but the hope of the evil-doer comes to destruction.

Proverbs 17:18
A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour.

Proverbs 21:16
The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.

Proverbs 28:2
Because of the sin of the land, its troubles are increased; but by a man of wisdom and knowledge they will be put out like a fire.

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Proverbs 11:13
He who goes about talking of others makes secrets public, but the true-hearted man keeps things covered.

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Proverbs 12:15
The way of the foolish man seems right to him? but the wise man gives ear to suggestions.

Jeremiah 38:24
Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, Let no man have knowledge of these words, and you will not be put to death.

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Psalms 45:1
To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. Maschil. A Song of loves. My heart is flowing over with good things; my words are of that which I have made for a king; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Proverbs 10:16
The work of the upright gives life: the increase of the evil-doer is a cause of sin.

Proverbs 12:18
There are some whose uncontrolled talk is like the wounds of a sword, but the tongue of the wise makes one well again.

Proverbs 12:25
Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.

Proverbs 12:26
The upright man is a guide to his neighbour, but the way of evil-doers is a cause of error to them.

Proverbs 14:10
No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.

Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise keep knowledge, but the heart of the foolish man is not right.

Proverbs 15:23
A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is!

Proverbs 16:23
The heart of the wise man is the teacher of his mouth, and gives increased learning to his lips.

Proverbs 25:11
A word at the right time is like apples of gold in a network of silver.

Proverbs 25:12
Like a nose-ring of gold and an ornament of the best gold, is a wise man who says sharp words to an ear ready to give attention.

Isaiah 50:4
The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced:

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Proverbs 13:13
He who makes sport of the word will come to destruction, but the respecter of the law will be rewarded.

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Proverbs 26:26
Though his hate is covered with deceit, his sin will be seen openly before the meeting of the people.

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Proverbs 27:2
Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.

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Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler gives attention to false words, all his servants are evil-doers.

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Isaiah 28:10
For it is one rule after another; one line after another; here a little, there a little.

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Proverbs 15:14
The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.

Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is before the face of him who has sense; but the eyes of the foolish are on the ends of the earth.

Isaiah 30:10
Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us pleasure:

Isaiah 44:20
As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.

Jeremiah 8:5
Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.

Hosea 12:1
Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.

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Jeremiah 10:2
This is what the Lord has said: Do not go in the way of the nations; have no fear of the signs of heaven, for the nations go in fear of them.

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Proverbs 14:29
He who is slow to be angry has great good sense; but he whose spirit is over-quick gives support to what is foolish.

Proverbs 21:24
The man of pride, lifted up in soul, is named high-hearted; he is acting in an outburst of pride.

Isaiah 52:13
See, my servant will do well in his undertakings, he will be honoured, and lifted up, and be very high.

Matthew 10:16
See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.

Romans 16:19
For all have knowledge of how you do what you are ordered. For this reason I have joy in you, but it is my desire that you may be wise in what is good, and without knowledge of evil.

1 Corinthians 14:20
My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.

Ephesians 5:17
For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.

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Matthew 17:9
And when they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus gave them orders, saying, Let no man have word of what you have seen, till the Son of man has come again from the dead.

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Mark 15:5
But Jesus gave no more answers, so that Pilate was full of wonder.

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Colossians 3:8
But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;

Jude 1:10
But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.

Jude 1:13
Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.

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1 Timothy 6:3
If any man gives different teaching, not in agreement with the true words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the teaching which is in agreement with true religion,

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1 Corinthians 2:2
For I had made the decision to have knowledge of nothing among you but only of Jesus Christ on the cross.

1 Timothy 6:4
He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,

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Psalms 39:1
To the chief music-maker. Of Jeduthun. A Psalm. Of David. I said, I will give attention to my ways, so that my tongue may do no wrong; I will keep my mouth under control, while the sinner is before me.

Ecclesiastes 10:14
The foolish are full of words; man has no knowledge of what will be; and who is able to say what will be after him?

Matthew 12:34
You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.

Matthew 12:35
The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.

Matthew 12:36
And I say to you that in the day when they are judged, men will have to give an account of every foolish word they have said.

Matthew 12:37
For by your words will your righteousness be seen, and by your words you will be judged.

Ephesians 4:29
Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.

Ephesians 5:4
And let there be no low behaviour, or foolish talk, or words said in sport, which are not right, but in place of them the giving of praise.

James 3:4
And again ships, though they are so great and are moved by violent winds, are turned by a very small guiding-blade, at the impulse of the man who is using it.

James 3:5
Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!

James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.

James 3:7
For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority;

James 3:8
But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.

2 Peter 2:7
And kept safe Lot, the upright man, who was deeply troubled by the unclean life of the evil-doers

2 Peter 2:18
For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

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