Verse 3

In the mouth of the foolishe is the rodde of pryde: but the lippes of the wyse wyll preserue them.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 12:6 : 6 The talkyng of the vngodly is howe they may lay wayte for blood: but the mouth of the righteous will deliuer the.
• Prov 18:6 : 6 A fooles lippes come with brawling, and his mouth prouoketh vnto stripes.
• Prov 21:24 : 24 He that is proude and arrogant; is called a scorner, whiche in his wrath worketh presumptuously.
• Prov 22:8 : 8 He that soweth wickednes, shal reape wickednes: and the rodde of his anger shall fayle.
• Prov 28:25 : 25 He that is of a proude stomacke stirreth vp strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lorde shalbe well fed.
• Dan 7:20 : 20 I desired also to knowe the trueth as touching the ten hornes that he had vpon his head, and this other which came vp afterwarde, before whose face there fell downe three, which horne had eyes and a mouth that spake presumptuous thinges, and loked with a grimmer visage then his felowes.
• Rom 10:9-9 : 9 For if thou shalt knowledge with thy mouth, the Lorde Iesus, and shalt beleue in thyne heart that God raysed hym from the dead, thou shalt be saued. 10 For with the heart man beleueth vnto ryghteousnesse, and with ye mouth man confesseth to saluation.
• Jas 3:5-6 : 5 Euen so the tongue is a litle member also, & boasteth great thynges. Beholde how great a matter a litle fire kindleth. 6 And the tongue is fyre, euen a worlde of wickednesse. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fyre the course of nature, & it is set on fyre of hell.
• 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For when they haue spoken the great swellyng wordes of vanitie, they entice through lustes in the voluptuousnesse of the fleshe, them that were cleane escaped, from them whiche are wrapped in errour,
• Rev 3:10 : 10 Because thou hast kept the wordes of my patience, therfore I wyll kepe thee from the houre of temptation, which wyll come vpon all the worlde, to trie them that dwel vpon the earth.
• Rev 12:11 : 11 And they ouercame hym by the blood of the Lambe, and by the worde of their testimonie, and they loued not their lyues vnto the death.
• Rev 15:5-6 : 5 And after that I loked, and beholde, the temple of the tabernacle of testimonie was open in heauen: 6 And the seuen angels came out of the temple, which had the seuen plagues, clothed in pure and bryght lynnen, and hauing their brestes girded with golden girdels.
• 1 Sam 2:3 : 3 Talke no more proudly, let not arrogancie come out of your mouthes: for the Lorde is a God of knowledge, and his purposes come to passe.
• Job 5:21 : 21 Thou shalt be hyd from the scourge of the tongue, & when destruction commeth thou shalt not neede to feare.
• Ps 12:3 : 3 God wyll cut away all flatteryng lippes: and the tongue that speaketh great thinges.
• Ps 31:18 : 18 Let the lying lippes be put to scilence: which speake against ye righteous greeuous thinges with disdaine & contempt.
• Ps 52:1-2 : 1 To the chiefe musition, a wyse instruction of Dauid, when Doeg the Edomite came to Saul and tolde him, saying: Dauid is come to the house of Achimelek. Why boastest thy self thou tiraunt of mischiefe? the goodnes of God dayly endureth. 2 Thy tongue imagineth wickednes: and deceaueth like a sharpe raser.
• Ps 57:4 : 4 My soule is among Lions, and I lye among those that are set on fire: among the children of men whose teeth are speares and arrowes, and their tongue a sharpe sword.