Proverbs 15:4

Proverbs 15:4
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

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Job 4:3
Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.

Job 4:4
Your words have supported him who was falling, you have made the feeble knees firm.

Job 23:12
I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Job 29:21
“Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

Job 29:22
After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.

Jeremiah 15:16
Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

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Job 8:2
“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

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Proverbs 3:19
By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.

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Proverbs 12:8
A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who has a warped mind shall be despised.

Proverbs 28:6
Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.

Ezekiel 9:9
Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’

Matthew 17:17
Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

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Proverbs 13:17
A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.

Proverbs 13:20
One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Proverbs 15:3
Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

Proverbs 15:12
A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

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Proverbs 15:28
The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

Proverbs 16:13
Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.

Ephesians 4:30
Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

Colossians 4:3
praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

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Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Proverbs 10:31
The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

Proverbs 12:17
He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

Proverbs 12:19
Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.

Proverbs 15:23
Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

Proverbs 16:21
The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.

Proverbs 16:22
Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.

Proverbs 16:23
The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.

Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Ecclesiastes 12:9
Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

Ecclesiastes 12:10
The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.

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.

Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

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 52:2
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalms 52:3
You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.

Psalms 52:4
You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

Psalms 109:22
for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

Psalms 120:2
Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

Proverbs 18:8
The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Proverbs 26:22
The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.

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.

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Proverbs 20:30
Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.

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Proverbs 21:29
A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.

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Jeremiah 3:15
I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

John 21:15
So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”

John 21:16
He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”

John 21:17
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

1 Peter 5:2
shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily; not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

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Ezekiel 27:12
“ ‘ “Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches. They traded for your wares with silver, iron, tin, and lead.

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Malachi 4:2
But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of the stall.

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Matthew 27:3
Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

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Matthew 27:4
saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

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1 Timothy 1:10
for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,

1 Timothy 6:5
constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

2 Timothy 1:13
Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,

Titus 1:9
holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

Titus 2:1
But say the things which fit sound doctrine,

Titus 2:2
that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance,

Titus 3:8
This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you insist confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

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