Proverbs 10:11

Geneva Bible (1560)

The mouth of a righteous man is a welspring of life: but iniquitie couereth the mouth of the wicked.

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  • Prov 10:6 : 6 Blessings are vpon the head of the righteous: but iniquitie shall couer the mouth of the wicked.
  • Prov 13:14 : 14 The instruction of a wise man is as the welspring of life, to turne away from the snares of death.
  • Prov 18:4 : 4 The words of a mans mouth are like deepe waters, and the welspring of wisdome is like a flowing riuer.
  • Prov 20:15 : 15 There is golde, and a multitude of precious stones: but the lips of knowledge are a precious iewel.
  • Eccl 10:12-14 : 12 The words of ye mouth of a wise man haue grace: but the lippes of a foole deuoure himselfe. 13 The beginning of the wordes of his mouth is foolishnesse, and the latter ende of his mouth is wicked madnesse. 14 For the foole multiplieth woordes, saying, Man knoweth not what shall be: and who can tell him what shall be after him?
  • Matt 12:34-37 : 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. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth foorth good things: & an euill man out of an euill treasure, bringeth forth euill things. 36 But I say vnto you, that of euery idle word that men shall speake, they shall giue account thereof at the day of iudgement. 37 For by thy wordes thou shalt be iustified, and by thy wordes thou shalt be condemned.
  • Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no corrupt comunicatio proceed out of your mouths: but that which is good, to ye vse of edifying, that it may minister grace vnto the hearers.
  • Prov 10:20-21 : 20 The tongue of the iust man is as fined siluer: but the heart of the wicked is litle worth. 21 The lippes of the righteous doe feede many: but fooles shall die for want of wisedome.
  • Prov 10:32 : 32 The lips of the righteous knowe what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh froward things.
  • Ps 37:30-31 : 30 The mouth of the righteous will speake of wisedome, and his tongue will talke of iudgement. 31 For the Lawe of his God is in his heart, and his steppes shall not slide.
  • Ps 107:42 : 42 The righteous shall see it, and reioyce, and all iniquitie shall stoppe her mouth.
  • Prov 15:7 : 7 The lippes of the wise doe spread abroade knowledge: but ye heart of the foolish doth not so.
  • Prov 16:22-24 : 22 Vnderstading is welspring of life vnto them that haue it: and the instruction of fooles is folly. 23 The heart of the wise guideth his mouth wisely, and addeth doctrine to his lippes. 24 Faire wordes are as an hony combe, sweetenesse to the soule, and health to the bones.
  • Jas 3:5-8 : 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. 8 But the tongue can no man tame. It is an vnruly euill, full of deadly poyson.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 10:6-7
    2 verses
    84%

    6 Blessings are vpon the head of the righteous: but iniquitie shall couer the mouth of the wicked.

    7 The memoriall of the iust shalbe blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rotte.

  • Prov 10:31-32
    2 verses
    83%

    31 The mouth of the iust shall be fruitfull in wisdome: but the tongue of the froward shall be cut out.

    32 The lips of the righteous knowe what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh froward things.

  • Ps 37:30
    80%

    30 The mouth of the righteous will speake of wisedome, and his tongue will talke of iudgement.

  • Prov 15:28
    79%

    28 The heart of the righteous studieth to answere: but the wicked mans mouth babbleth euil thinges.

  • Prov 13:2-3
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    78%

    2 A man shall eate good things by the fruite of his mouth: but the soule of the trespassers shall suffer violence.

    3 Hee that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life: but he that openeth his lips, destruction shal be to him.

  • Prov 12:5-6
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    78%

    5 The thoughtes of the iust are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceitfull.

    6 The talking of the wicked is to lye in waite for blood: but the mouth of the righteous will deliuer them.

  • Prov 10:19-21
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    77%

    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.

    21 The lippes of the righteous doe feede many: but fooles shall die for want of wisedome.

  • Prov 18:4
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    4 The words of a mans mouth are like deepe waters, and the welspring of wisdome is like a flowing riuer.

  • Prov 15:2
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    2 The tongue of the wise vseth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fooles babbleth out foolishnesse.

  • Eccl 10:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

    12 The words of ye mouth of a wise man haue grace: but the lippes of a foole deuoure himselfe.

    13 The beginning of the wordes of his mouth is foolishnesse, and the latter ende of his mouth is wicked madnesse.

  • Prov 25:26
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    26 A righteous man falling downe before the wicked, is like a troubled well, & a corrupt spring.

  • Prov 10:12
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    12 Hatred stirreth vp contentions: but loue couereth all trespasses.

  • Prov 15:4
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    4 A wholesome tongue is as a tree of life: but the frowardnes therof is the breaking of ye minde.

  • Prov 11:9-11
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    9 An hypocrite with his mouth hurteth his neighbour: but the righteous shall be deliuered by knowledge.

    10 In the prosperitie of the righteous the citie reioyceth, and when the wicked perish, there is ioye.

    11 By the blessing of the righteous, the citie is exalted: but it is subuerted by the mouth of the wicked.

  • Prov 10:10
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    10 He that winketh with the eye, worketh sorowe, & he that is foolish in talke, shalbe beaten.

  • Prov 8:7
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    7 For my mouth shall speake the trueth, and my lippes abhorre wickednesse.

  • Prov 12:12-14
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    12 The wicked desireth the net of euils: but the roote of the righteous giueth fruite.

    13 The euill man is snared by the wickednesse of his lips, but the iust shall come out of aduersitie.

    14 A man shalbe satiate with good things by the fruite of his mouth, and the recompence of a mans hands shall God giue vnto him.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.

  • Prov 16:10
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    10 A diuine sentence shalbe in the lips of the King: his mouth shall not trasgresse in iudgement.

  • Prov 10:16
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    16 The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: but the reuenues of the wicked to sinne.

  • Prov 10:14
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    14 Wise men lay vp knowledge: but ye mouth of the foole is a present destruction.

  • Prov 11:23
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    23 The desire of the righteous is onely good: but the hope of the wicked is indignation.

  • Prov 15:7
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    7 The lippes of the wise doe spread abroade knowledge: but ye heart of the foolish doth not so.

  • Rom 3:14
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    14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse.

  • Prov 14:3
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    3 In the mouth of the foolish is the rod of pride: but the lippes of the wise preserue them.

  • Prov 21:23
    72%

    23 He that keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soule from afflictions.

  • Prov 16:13
    72%

    13 Righteous lips are the delite of Kings, and the King loueth him that speaketh right things.

  • Prov 11:30
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    30 The fruite of the righteous is as a tree of life, and he that winneth soules, is wise.

  • 1 Pet 3:10
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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.

  • Jas 3:10
    72%

    10 Out of one mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing: my brethren, these things ought not so to be.

  • Prov 12:17-18
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    71%

    17 He that speaketh trueth, will shewe righteousnes: but a false witnes vseth deceite.

    18 There is that speaketh wordes like the prickings of a sworde: but the tongue of wise men is health.

  • Prov 16:23
    71%

    23 The heart of the wise guideth his mouth wisely, and addeth doctrine to his lippes.

  • Ps 31:18
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    18 Let the lying lips be made dumme, which cruelly, proudly and spitefully speake against the righteous.

  • Prov 19:28
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    28 A wicked witnes mocketh at iudgement, & the mouth of ye wicked swalloweth vp iniquitie.

  • Prov 18:20
    71%

    20 With the fruite of a mans mouth shall his belly be satisfied, and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

  • Prov 29:11
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    11 A foole powreth out all his minde: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterward.

  • Ps 34:13
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    13 Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lips, that they speake no guile.

  • Prov 18:7
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    7 A fooles mouth is his owne destruction, and his lips are a snare for his soule.