Proverbs 26:9
Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a man overcome by drink, so is a wise saying in the mouth of a foolish man.
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Proverbs 26:9
Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a man overcome by drink, so is a wise saying in the mouth of a foolish man.
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Deuteronomy 28:58
If you will not take care to do all the words of this law, recorded in this book, honouring that name of glory and of fear, THE LORD YOUR GOD;
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2 Samuel 1:16
And David said to him, May your blood be on your head; for your mouth has given witness against you, saying, I have put to death the man marked with the holy oil.
1 Kings 20:40
But while your servant was turning this way and that, he was gone. Then the king of Israel said to him, You are responsible; you have given the decision against yourself.
1 Kings 20:41
Then he quickly took the head-band from his eyes; and the king of Israel saw that he was one of the prophets.
1 Kings 20:42
And he said to him, These are the words of the Lord: Because you have let go from your hands the man whom I had put to the curse, your life will be taken for his life, and your people for his people.
Psalms 140:9
As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.
Proverbs 2:2
So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;
Proverbs 10:8
The wise-hearted man will let himself be ruled, but the man whose talk is foolish will have a fall.
Proverbs 10:10
He who makes signs with his eyes is a cause of trouble, but he who makes a man see his errors is a cause of peace.
Proverbs 10:14
Knowledge is stored up by the wise, but the mouth of the foolish man is a destruction which is near.
Proverbs 18:6
A foolish man's lips are a cause of fighting, and his mouth makes him open to blows.
Proverbs 18:7
The mouth of a foolish man is his destruction, and his lips are a net for his soul.
Proverbs 18:8
The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, and go down into the inner parts of the stomach.
Proverbs 19:5
A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will not go free.
Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words of a wise man's mouth are sweet to all, but the lips of a foolish man are his destruction.
Luke 19:22
He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed;
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2 Samuel 23:6
But the evil-doers, all of them, will be like thorns to be pushed away, because they may not be gripped in the hand:
2 Samuel 23:7
But anyone touching them has to be armed with iron and the rod of a spear; and they will be burned with fire, every one of them.
Song of Solomon 2:2
As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters.
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2 Chronicles 33:11
So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.
Proverbs 23:35
They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.
Proverbs 24:31
And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.
Isaiah 34:13
And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.
Hosea 9:6
For see, they are going away into Assyria; Egypt will get them together, Memphis will be their last resting-place; their fair silver vessels will be covered over with field plants, and thorns will come up in their tents.
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Job 5:7
But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.
Job 12:11
Are not words tested by the ear, even as food is tasted by the mouth?
Job 14:18
But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;
Job 14:19
The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.
Proverbs 25:25
As cold water to a tired soul, so is good news from a far country.
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Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
Proverbs 12:16
A foolish man lets his trouble be openly seen, but a sharp man keeps shame secret.
Proverbs 14:24
Their wisdom is a crown to the wise, but their foolish behaviour is round the head of the unwise.
Jeremiah 17:11
Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.
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Psalms 50:16
But to the sinner, God says, What are you doing, talking of my laws, or taking the words of my agreement in your mouth?
Psalms 50:17
Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words.
Psalms 50:18
When you saw a thief, you were in agreement with him, and you were joined with those who took other men's wives.
Psalms 50:19
You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.
Psalms 50:20
You say evil of your brother; you make false statements against your mother's son.
Psalms 50:21
These things have you done, and I said nothing; it seemed to you that I was such a one as yourself; but I will make a protest against you, and put them in order before your eyes.
Proverbs 17:7
Fair words are not to be looked for from a foolish man, much less are false lips in a ruler.
Matthew 7:4
Or how will you say to your brother, Let me take out the grain of dust from your eye, when you yourself have a bit of wood in your eye?
Matthew 7:5
You false one, first take out the bit of wood from your eye, then will you see clearly to take out the grain of dust from your brother's eye.
Luke 4:23
And he said to them, Without doubt you will say to me, Let the medical man make himself well: the things which to our knowledge were done at Capernaum, do them here in your country.
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Proverbs 24:7
Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.
Proverbs 26:11
Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again.
Proverbs 26:12
Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.
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Proverbs 27:9
Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.
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2 Peter 3:16
And as he said in all his letters, which had to do with these things; in which are some hard sayings, so that, like the rest of the holy Writings, they are twisted by those who are uncertain and without knowledge, to the destruction of their souls.
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