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James 3:5-8
Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark.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)
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Psalms 45:5
Let your sharp arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s enemies; let the nations fall beneath your feet. (niv)
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Psalms 57:4
I am in the midst of lions; I am forced to dwell among ravenous beasts— men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords. (niv)
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Proverbs 11:18
A wicked person earns deceptive wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward. (niv)
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Proverbs 19:5
A false witness will not go unpunished, and whoever pours out lies will not go free. (niv)
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Psalms 52:5
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin: He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. (niv)
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Psalms 140:9-11
Those who surround me proudly rear their heads; may the mischief of their lips engulf them.May burning coals fall on them; may they be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, never to rise.May slanderers not be established in the land; may disaster hunt down the violent. (niv)
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Psalms 7:13
He has prepared his deadly weapons; he makes ready his flaming arrows. (niv)
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Proverbs 11:12
Whoever derides their neighbor has no sense, but the one who has understanding holds their tongue. (niv)
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Proverbs 18:21
The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit. (niv)
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Revelation 21:8
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars— they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.” (niv)
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Proverbs 19:9
A false witness will not go unpunished, and whoever pours out lies will perish. (niv)
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Proverbs 11:9
With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors, but through knowledge the righteous escape. (niv)
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Proverbs 12:22
The Lord detests lying lips, but he delights in people who are trustworthy. (niv)
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Psalms 59:7
See what they spew from their mouths— the words from their lips are sharp as swords, and they think,“ Who can hear us?” (niv)
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Deuteronomy 32:23-24
“ I will heap calamities on them and spend my arrows against them.I will send wasting famine against them, consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust. (niv)
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Proverbs 16:27
A scoundrel plots evil, and on their lips it is like a scorching fire. (niv)
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Proverbs 18:8
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts. (niv)