James 3:8
But the tongue can no man tame. It is an vnruly euill, full of deadly poyson.
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- Rom 3:13 : 13 Their throte is an open sepulchre: they haue vsed their tongues to deceit: the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes.
- Ps 140:3 : 3 They haue sharpened their tongues like a serpent: adders poyson is vnder their lips. Selah.
- Jas 3:6 : 6 And the tongue is fire, yea, a worlde of wickednesse: so is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell.
- Eccl 10:11 : 11 If the serpent bite, when he is not charmed: no better is a babbler.
- Ps 64:3-4 : 3 Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes. 4 To shoote at the vpright in secrete: they shoote at him suddenly, and feare not.
- Ps 55:21 : 21 The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his words were more gentle then oyle, yet they were swordes.
- Ps 57:4 : 4 My soule is among lions: I lie among the children of men, that are set on fire: whose teeth are speares and arrowes, & their tongue a sharpe sworde.
- Ps 58:4 : 4 Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.
- Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they brag in their talke, & swords are in their lips: for, Who, say they, doeth heare?
- Deut 32:33 : 33 Their wine is the poyson of dragons, and the cruel gall of aspes.
- Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon, that olde serpent, called the deuil and Satan, was cast out, which deceiueth all the world: he was euen cast into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
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- Jas 3:5-73 verses85%
5 Euen so the tongue is a litle member, and boasteth of great things: beholde, howe great a thing a litle fire kindleth.
6 And the tongue is fire, yea, a worlde of wickednesse: so is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell.
7 For the whole nature of beasts, & of birds, and of creeping things, and things of the sea is tamed, and hath bene tamed of the nature of man.
- Rom 3:13-142 verses74%
13 Their throte is an open sepulchre: they haue vsed their tongues to deceit: the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes.
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse.
- Jas 3:9-113 verses74%
9 Therewith blesse we God euen the Father, and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
10 Out of one mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing: my brethren, these things ought not so to be.
11 Doeth a fountaine send forth at one place sweete water and bitter?
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4 A wholesome tongue is as a tree of life: but the frowardnes therof is the breaking of ye minde.
- Jas 3:2-32 verses72%
2 For in many things we sinne all. If any man sinne not in word, he is a perfect man, and able to bridle all the body.
3 Beholde, we put bittes into the horses mouthes, that they should obey vs, and we turne about all their bodie.
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3 They haue sharpened their tongues like a serpent: adders poyson is vnder their lips. Selah.
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7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.
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13 Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lips, that they speake no guile.
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10 For if any man long after life, and to see good dayes, let him refraine his tongue from euill, and his lippes that they speake no guile.
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16 He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.
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20 The froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a naughtie tongue, shall fall into euill.
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11 If the serpent bite, when he is not charmed: no better is a babbler.
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27 A wicked man diggeth vp euill, and in his lippes is like burning fire.
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4 Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.
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34 O generations of vipers, howe can you speake good things, when ye are euill? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
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2 Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.
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3 Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes.
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20 For the wrath of man doeth not accomplish the righteousnesse of God.
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19 Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.
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3 What doeth thy deceitfull tongue bring vnto thee? or what doeth it auaile thee?
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32 In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.
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21 Death & life are in the power of ye tongue, and they that loue it, shal eate the fruite thereof.
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23 He that keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soule from afflictions.
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3 The wordes of his mouth are iniquitie and deceit: hee hath left off to vnderstand and to doe good.
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9 For no constancie is in their mouth: within, they are very corruption: their throte is an open sepulchre, and they flatter with their tongue.
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18 As he that faineth himselfe mad, casteth fire brands, arrowes, and mortall things,
- Job 20:12-132 verses68%
12 When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,
13 And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,
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31 The mouth of the iust shall be fruitfull in wisdome: but the tongue of the froward shall be cut out.
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2 The tongue of the wise vseth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fooles babbleth out foolishnesse.
- Prov 10:19-202 verses68%
19 In many wordes there cannot want iniquitie: but he that refrayneth his lippes, is wise.
20 The tongue of the iust man is as fined siluer: but the heart of the wicked is litle worth.
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5 For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty.
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26 If any man amog you seeme religious, and refraineth not his tongue, but deceiueth his owne heart, this mans religion is vaine.
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28 A false tongue hateth the afflicted, and a flattering mouth causeth ruine.
- Titus 3:2-32 verses67%
2 That they speake euill of no man, that they be no fighters, but soft, shewing all meekenesse vnto all men.
3 For wee our selues also were in times past vnwise, disobedient, deceiued, seruing the lustes and diuers pleasures, liuing in maliciousnes and enuie, hatefull, and hating one another:
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10 But these speake euill of those thinges, which they know not: & whatsoeuer things they know naturally, as beasts, which are without reason, in those things they corrupt them selues.
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12 But these, as naturall brute beasts, led with sensualitie and made to be taken, and destroyed, speake euill of those things which they know not, and shal perish through their owne corruption,
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8 Their tongue is as an arow shot out, and speaketh deceite: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart hee layeth waite for him.
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18 There is that speaketh wordes like the prickings of a sworde: but the tongue of wise men is health.
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15 This wisedome descendeth not from aboue, but is earthly, sensuall, and deuilish.
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8 A double minded man is vnstable in all his waies.
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8 And with the wholesome woorde, which can not be condemned, that hee which withstandeth, may be ashamed, hauing nothing concerning you to speake euill of.