James 3:5
So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
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James 3:5
So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
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James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
James 3:7
For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;
James 3:8
but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.
Psalms 30:12
to the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
Proverbs 16:27
A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.
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James 3:2
For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.
James 3:3
Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.
James 3:4
Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.
James 1:26
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
James 3:9
With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.
James 3:10
Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
Psalms 34:13
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.
Psalms 39:1
I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”
Proverbs 13:3
He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
James 1:19
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
1 Peter 3:10
For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.
Proverbs 12:13
An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.
Proverbs 17:27
He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.
Proverbs 21:23
Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
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Matthew 12:34
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
Matthew 12:35
The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.
Matthew 12:36
I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
Matthew 12:37
For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Ephesians 5:4
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.
Psalms 37:30
The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.
Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 15:2
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools gush out folly.
Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.
Malachi 3:13
“Your words have been harsh against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
Mark 7:22
covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
Colossians 3:8
but now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
1 Timothy 6:4
he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
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James 3:1
Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
James 3:11
Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
James 3:12
Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
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Psalms 12:3
May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,
Psalms 12:4
who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”
Psalms 52:2
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Job 5:21
You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
Psalms 31:20
In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.
Psalms 64:3
who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
Psalms 64:4
to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”
Psalms 5:9
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
Psalms 36:3
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
Psalms 50:19
“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
Psalms 55:21
His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.
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2 Peter 2:18
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
Psalms 73:9
They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.
Romans 1:30
backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Jude 1:13
wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
Jude 1:16
These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
Revelation 13:5
A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
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Psalms 52:1
Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.
Psalms 10:3
For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.
1 Corinthians 5:6
Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
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Romans 3:13
“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”
Jeremiah 9:3
“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 9:4
“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.
Jeremiah 9:5
Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity.
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Psalms 49:6
Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—
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James 4:16
But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
Proverbs 20:14
“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
Proverbs 25:14
As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
Proverbs 27:1
Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.
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Job 31:12
for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
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Psalms 49:7
none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.
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Proverbs 26:23
Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
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Ecclesiastes 10:13
The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
2 Peter 2:7
and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked
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Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
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Acts 28:2
The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the present rain and because of the cold.
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Romans 6:13
Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
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Romans 6:19
I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
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