Psalms 50:19-20
19 “You give your mouth free rein for evil,aand your tongue frames deceit.
20You sit and speak against your brother;
you slander your own mother’s son.
Psalms 52:2-4
2Your btongue plots destruction,like ca sharp razor, you dworker of deceit.
3You love evil more than good,
and elying more than speaking what is right. Selah
4You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.
Psalms 64:3
3who fwhet their tongues like swords,who gaim bitter words like arrows,
Psalms 120:2-3
2Deliver me, O Lord,from lying lips,
from a deceitful tongue.
3 What shall be given to you,
hand what more shall be done to you,
you deceitful tongue?
Jeremiah 9:3-5
3 iThey 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,
kand they do not know me, declares the Lord.
4 lLet everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every mbrother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor ngoes about as a slanderer.
5Everyone deceives his neighbor,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
they weary themselves committing iniquity.
Jeremiah 9:8
8 oTheir tongue is a deadly arrow;pit speaks deceitfully;
with his mouth qeach speaks peace to his neighbor,
but in his heart rhe plans an ambush for him.
James 3:5-8
5So also the tongue is a small member, yet sit boasts of great things.How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6And tthe tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, ustaining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, ▼
▼Or wheel of birth
and set on fire by hell. ▼▼Greek Gehenna
7For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, xfull of deadly poison.
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