Proverbs 10:20
"The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth."
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- Genesis 6:5
"And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 12:18
"There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 17:9
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"
Read in chapter → - Matthew 12:34
"O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 15:4
"A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 8:19
"My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 23:7
"For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 8:21
"And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 16:13
"Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 25:11
"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver."
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