James 3:5
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5 Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts.(A) Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark.
Proverbs 18:21
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Jeremiah 9:3-8
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3 “They make ready their tongue
like a bow, to shoot lies;(A)
it is not by truth
that they triumph[a] in the land.
They go from one sin to another;
they do not acknowledge(B) me,”
declares the Lord.
4 “Beware of your friends;(C)
do not trust anyone in your clan.(D)
For every one of them is a deceiver,[b](E)
and every friend a slanderer.(F)
5 Friend deceives friend,(G)
and no one speaks the truth.(H)
They have taught their tongues to lie;(I)
they weary themselves with sinning.
6 You[c] live in the midst of deception;(J)
in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,”
declares the Lord.
7 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says:
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:3 Or lies; / they are not valiant for truth
- Jeremiah 9:4 Or a deceiving Jacob
- Jeremiah 9:6 That is, Jeremiah (the Hebrew is singular)
Proverbs 12:18
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Proverbs 15:2
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Psalm 17:10
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Psalm 73:8-9
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Psalm 52:1-2
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Psalm 52[a]
For the director of music. A maskil[b] of David. When Doeg the Edomite(A) had gone to Saul and told him: “David has gone to the house of Ahimelek.”
Footnotes
- Psalm 52:1 In Hebrew texts 52:1-9 is numbered 52:3-11.
- Psalm 52:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term
Psalm 12:2-4
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Jude 16
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16 These people are grumblers(A) and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires;(B) they boast(C) about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.
Jeremiah 18:18
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Psalm 10:3
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Ezekiel 28:2
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2 “Son of man(A), say to the ruler of Tyre, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
Revelation 13:5-6
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5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies(A) and to exercise its authority for forty-two months.(B) 6 It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven.(C)
2 Peter 2:18
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18 For they mouth empty, boastful words(A) and, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping(B) from those who live in error.
2 Kings 19:22-24
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22 Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?(A)
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes in pride?
Against the Holy One(B) of Israel!
23 By your messengers
you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,(C)
“With my many chariots(D)
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
the utmost heights of Lebanon.
I have cut down(E) its tallest cedars,
the choicest of its junipers.
I have reached its remotest parts,
the finest of its forests.
24 I have dug wells in foreign lands
and drunk the water there.
With the soles of my feet
I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
Daniel 4:30
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Job 22:17
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17 They said to God, ‘Leave us alone!
What can the Almighty do to us?’(A)
Job 21:14-15
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Exodus 15:9
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Daniel 3:15
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15 Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down and worship the image I made, very good. But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what god(A) will be able to rescue(B) you from my hand?”
Ezekiel 29:3
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3 Speak to him and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
Exodus 5:2
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2 Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord,(A) that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord and I will not let Israel go.”(B)
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