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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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Job 31:12
for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

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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.

Psalms 64:4
to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

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.

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 9:5
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 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!

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.

Ecclesiastes 10:13
The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

Colossians 4:6
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

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Psalms 49:7
none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

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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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.

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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Proverbs 16:27
A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

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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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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Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

Mark 7:22
covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

Romans 1:30
backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Colossians 3:8
but now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

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,

2 Peter 2:7
and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

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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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Psalms 73:9
They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

Malachi 3:13
“Your words have been harsh against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’

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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