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Proverbs 10:31
From the mouth of the righteous comes the fruit of wisdom, but a perverse tongue will be silenced. (niv)
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Proverbs 18:6-7
The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating.The mouths of fools are their undoing, and their lips are a snare to their very lives. (niv)
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Proverbs 6:12-15
A troublemaker and a villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,who winks maliciously with his eye, signals with his feet and motions with his fingers,who plots evil with deceit in his heart— he always stirs up conflict.Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant; he will suddenly be destroyed— without remedy. (niv)
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Psalms 18:26
to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the devious you show yourself shrewd. (niv)
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Ecclesiastes 10:12
Words from the mouth of the wise are gracious, but fools are consumed by their own lips. (niv)
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Proverbs 10:14
The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool invites ruin. (niv)
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Proverbs 3:32
For the Lord detests the perverse but takes the upright into his confidence. (niv)
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Proverbs 10:10
Whoever winks maliciously causes grief, and a chattering fool comes to ruin. (niv)
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Proverbs 8:13
To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech. (niv)
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James 3:6-8
The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and sea creatures are being tamed and have been tamed by mankind,but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. (niv)