Proverbs 18:8

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

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Genesis 43:23
He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money.” He brought Simeon out to them.

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Exodus 20:16
“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Exodus 23:1
“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

Proverbs 19:5
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

Ezekiel 22:9
Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

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Deuteronomy 22:14
accuses her of shameful things, gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity;”

Deuteronomy 22:19
They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.

1 Timothy 5:14
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

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Deuteronomy 33:3
Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words.

Judges 20:34
Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them.

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1 Samuel 24:9
David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

1 Samuel 26:19
Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’

Psalms 101:5
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

Psalms 141:6
Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.

Proverbs 17:4
An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

Proverbs 25:23
The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

Proverbs 26:28
A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

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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.’ ”

Psalms 64:8
Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

Psalms 140:9
As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Proverbs 10:8
The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.

Proverbs 10:10
One who winks with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.

Proverbs 10:14
Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

Proverbs 26:9
Like a thorn bush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

Luke 19:22
“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down and reaping that which I didn’t sow.

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Job 15:35
They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

Job 32:19
Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.

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Psalms 95:10
Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “They are a people who err in their heart. They have not known my ways.”

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Job 5:15
But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

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 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.

Psalms 59:7
Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

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.

Psalms 120:4
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

Proverbs 11:9
With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.

Proverbs 11:12
One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

Proverbs 16:26
The appetite of the laboring man labors for him, for his mouth urges him on.

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

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!

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.

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Proverbs 1:12
Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

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Proverbs 3:29
Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.

Proverbs 23:3
Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

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Proverbs 11:18
Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

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

Proverbs 10:32
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.

Proverbs 11:11
By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

Proverbs 15:2
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools gush out folly.

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

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

Proverbs 18:4
The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

Proverbs 18:14
A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

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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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Proverbs 19:11
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

Proverbs 19:19
A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.

Proverbs 19:28
A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.

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Ecclesiastes 7:21
Also don’t take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;

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Ecclesiastes 7:22
for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.

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Judges 16:18
When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand.

Psalms 62:9
Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

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.

Jeremiah 9:6
Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

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Matthew 7:3
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

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1 Corinthians 2:10
But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

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Proverbs 30:33
For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood, so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”

1 Timothy 6:3
If anyone teaches a different doctrine and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

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,

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.

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Proverbs 22:10
Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

John 1:14
The Word became flesh and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

James 3:14
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

James 3:15
This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

James 3:16
For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

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