A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.


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Psalms 5 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
James 3 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Proverbs 18 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Proverbs 17 4 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
Job 15 5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Proverbs 17 20 He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
Proverbs 26 28 A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Psalms 52 2 The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Proverbs 4 24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
James 3 8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
James 3 5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
Psalms 34 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Proverbs 12 8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
Psalms 50 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Job 27 4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
Proverbs 13 2 A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
Jeremiah 9 8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
Matthew 15 11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Proverbs 6 12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
Psalms 71 24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.
Proverbs 10 31 The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
Isaiah 32 6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Proverbs 15 26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
Romans 3 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Proverbs 10 32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
Proverbs 23 8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
Proverbs 21 6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Psalms 64 3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
Psalms 52 4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
Jeremiah 4 18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.
Proverbs 12 13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
Romans 3 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Job 20 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
Proverbs 10 20 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
Proverbs 19 3 The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
Proverbs 12 14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.
Proverbs 11 17 The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
Proverbs 8 8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
1 Timothy 6 5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
Job 6 30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
Psalms 64 8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
Proverbs 8 7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Galatians 5 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
Proverbs 27 7 The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
1 Peter 3 10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
Psalms 10 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Revelation 2 7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Matthew 15 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
Proverbs 16 13 Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.
Proverbs 12 12 The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.