Proverbs 18:7
A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
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Proverbs 18:7
A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
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Genesis 49:5
“Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.
Proverbs 18:9
One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
Proverbs 18:24
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
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Leviticus 5:15
“If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly regarding Yahweh’s holy things, then he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.
Leviticus 22:10
“ ‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
Leviticus 22:11
But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and those who are born in his house shall eat of his bread.
Leviticus 22:12
If a priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.
Leviticus 22:13
But if a priest’s daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s bread; but no stranger shall eat any of it.
Leviticus 22:14
“ ‘If a man eats something holy unwittingly, then he shall add the fifth part of its value to it, and shall give the holy thing to the priest.
Leviticus 22:15
The priests shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to Yahweh,
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Leviticus 27:30
“ ‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh’s. It is holy to Yahweh.
Malachi 3:8
Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.
Malachi 3:9
You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.
Malachi 3:10
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be enough room for.
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2 Samuel 1:16
David said to him, “Your blood be on your head, for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’ ”
1 Kings 20:40
As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.” The king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be. You yourself have decided it.”
1 Kings 20:41
He hurried, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized that he was one of the prophets.
1 Kings 20:42
He said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life will take the place of his life, and your people take the place of his people.’ ”
Job 15:6
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
Proverbs 26:9
Like a thorn bush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Matthew 21:41
They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers who will give him the fruit in its season.”
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2 Samuel 3:33
The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?
2 Samuel 13:12
She answered him, “No, my brother, do not force me! For no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Don’t you do this folly.
2 Samuel 13:13
As for me, where would I carry my shame? And as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you.”
2 Samuel 13:28
Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”
2 Samuel 13:29
The servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and every man got up on his mule and fled.
Psalms 14:1
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.
Ecclesiastes 2:15
Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:16
For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!
Isaiah 32:6
For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Jeremiah 17:11
As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.
Luke 12:19
I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’
Luke 12:20
“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
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1 Kings 3:7
Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in.
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1 Kings 12:11
Now my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’ ”
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 2:5
then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 2:13
who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,
Proverbs 10:6
Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 13:14
The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.
Proverbs 13:16
Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.
Proverbs 14:16
A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.
Proverbs 14:27
The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death.
Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
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1 Kings 14:21
Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
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Esther 5:14
Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.
Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.
Psalms 9:16
Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
Psalms 94:23
He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.
Daniel 6:24
The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions—them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces before they came to the bottom of the den.
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Proverbs 5:21
For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
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Psalms 5:6
You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
Psalms 64:7
But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.
Psalms 79:12
Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
Psalms 120:3
What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?
Psalms 120:4
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
Psalms 140:10
Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.
Proverbs 19:5
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.
Matthew 27:63
saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’
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Proverbs 6:15
Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.
Proverbs 10:20
The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.
Proverbs 10:32
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.
Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
Proverbs 17:20
One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.
Proverbs 21:23
Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
Ecclesiastes 10:13
The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
Ecclesiastes 10:14
A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?
2 Corinthians 2:16
to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
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.
Titus 1:11
whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.
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;
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Proverbs 14:14
The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.
Habakkuk 2:17
For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals will terrify you, because of men’s blood and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.
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Romans 10:14
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
Romans 10:15
And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”
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Proverbs 11:11
By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 15:28
The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.
Proverbs 17:27
He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.
Ecclesiastes 10:11
If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.
2 Corinthians 11:15
It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
Titus 1:10
For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
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.
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