Jer 5:23, 9:2-5, Mat 12:34-36, Mar 7:21-22, Rom 3:10-18, Jam 1:15, 3:6 | ESV | STEP | But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart ; they have turned aside and gone away .

2 ^{▼▼Ch 9:1 in Hebrew} Oh that I had in the desert
a travelers’ lodging place,
that I might leave my people
and go away from them!
For they are all ^cadulterers,
a company of ^dtreacherous men.
3 ^eThey bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong} in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
^gand they do not know me, declares the Lord.
4 ^hLet everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every ⁱbrother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor ^jgoes about as a slanderer.
5 Everyone deceives his neighbor,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
they weary themselves committing iniquity.

Matthew 12:34-36

34 ^kYou brood of vipers! How can you speak good, ^lwhen you are evil? ^mFor out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 ⁿThe good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. 36 I tell you, ^oon the day of judgment ^ppeople will give account for ^qevery careless word they speak,

Mark 7:21-22

21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, ^rmurder, adultery, 22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, ^ssensuality, ^tenvy, ^uslander, ^vpride, ^wfoolishness.

Romans 3:10-18

10 as it is written:

^x“None is righteous, no, not one;
11 no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”
13 ^y“Their throat is ^zan open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
^aa“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
14 ^ab“Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
15 ^ac“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 in their paths are ruin and misery,
17 and ^adthe way of peace they have not known.”
18 ^ae“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

James 1:15

15 Then desire ^afwhen it has conceived gives birth to sin, and ^agsin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

James 3:6

6 And ^ahthe tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, ^aistaining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, ^{▼▼Or wheel of birth} and set on fire by hell. ^{▼▼Greek Gehenna}