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1 Peter 3 15
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,
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Proverbs 15:2
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.
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Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
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James 3:6-8
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
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Ecclesiastes 5:6
Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
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Proverbs 29:20
Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
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Proverbs 13:16
Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.
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Proverbs 29:11
A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.
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Ecclesiastes 5:2
Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
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2 Peter 2 18
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
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Ecclesiastes 10:12-14
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?
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Titus 1:10-11
For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.
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Proverbs 16:23
The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.
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Matthew 12:34
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
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1 Kings 3 23-1 Kings 3 28
Then the king said,“ One says,‘ This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says,‘ No; but your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’”The king said,“ Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.The king said,“ Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said,“ Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said,“ He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”Then the king answered,“ Give her the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.”All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.
