Verse 20

The tongue of the iust man is as tried siluer: but the heart of the vngodly is a thyng of naught.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 12:18 : 18 A slaunderous person pricketh lyke a sworde: but a wise mans tongue is wholsome.
• Prov 15:4 : 4 A wholsome tongue is a tree of lyfe: but the frowardnesse therof doth make sad the spirite.
• Prov 16:13 : 13 Ryghteous lippes are pleasaunt vnto kynges, and them that speaketh the trueth shall he loue.
• Prov 23:7 : 7 For as though he thought it in his heart, he saith, eate and drinke: where as his heart is not with thee.
• Prov 25:11-12 : 11 A worde spoken in due season, is lyke apples of golde in a graued worke of siluer. 12 Who so reproueth a wyse man that hath an obedient eare, is as a golden earring, and an ornament of fine golde.
• Jer 17:9 : 9 Among all thynges, man hath the most deceiptfull and stubburne heart: Who shall then knowe it?
• Matt 12:34-35 : 34 O generation of vipers, howe can ye speake good thynges, when ye your selues are euyll? For out of the aboundauce of the heart, the mouth speaketh. 35 A good man, out of the good treasure of the heart, bryngeth foorth good thynges: And an euyll man, out of euyll treasure, bryngeth foorth euyll thynges.
• Gen 6:5 : 5 But God sawe that the malice of man was great in the earth, and all the imagination of the thoughtes of his heart was only euyll euery day.
• Gen 8:21 : 21 And the Lorde smelled a sweete or quiet sauour, and the Lord sayde in his heart: I wyll not hencefoorth curse the grounde any more for mans sake, for the imagination of mans heart is euyll euen from his youth: neyther wyll I smyte any more euery thyng lyuyng, as I haue done.
• Prov 8:19 : 19 My fruite is better then golde and pretious stones, and mine encrease more worth then fine siluer.