Verse 3

In the mouth of the foolish is the rod of pride: but the lippes of the wise preserue them.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 12:6 : 6 The talking of the wicked is to lye in waite for blood: but the mouth of the righteous will deliuer them.
  • Prov 18:6 : 6 A fooles lips come with strife, & his mouth calleth for stripes.
  • Prov 21:24 : 24 Proude, hautie and scornefull is his name that worketh in his arrogancie wrath.
  • Prov 22:8 : 8 He that soweth iniquitie, shall reape affliction, and the rodde of his anger shall faile.
  • Prov 28:25 : 25 He that is of a proude heart, stirreth vp strife: but he that trusteth in the Lorde, shall be fatte.
  • Dan 7:20 : 20 Also to know of the tenne hornes that were in his head, and of the other which came vp, before whome three fell, and of the horne that had eyes, and of the mouth that spake presumptuous thinges, whose looke was more stoute then his fellowes.
  • Rom 10:9-9 : 9 For if thou shalt confesse with thy mouth the Lord Iesus, and shalt beleeue in thine heart, that God raised him vp from the dead, thou shalt be saued: 10 For with the heart man beleeueth vnto righteousnes, and with the mouth man confesseth to saluation.
  • Jas 3:5-6 : 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.
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For in speaking swelling wordes of vanitie, they beguile with wantonnesse through the lusts of the flesh them that were cleane escaped from them which are wrapped in errour,
  • Rev 3:10 : 10 Because thou hast kept the woorde of my patience, therefore I wil deliuer thee from the houre of tentation, which will come vpon all the world, to trie them that dwell vpon the earth.
  • Rev 12:11 : 11 But they ouercame him by that blood of that Lambe, and by that worde of their testimonie, and they loued not their liues vnto the death.
  • Rev 15:5-6 : 5 And after that, I looked, 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 bright linnen, and hauing their breasts girded with golden girdles.
  • 1 Sam 2:3 : 3 Speake no more presumptuously: let not arrogancie come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him enterprises are established.
  • Job 5:21 : 21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it commeth.
  • Ps 12:3 : 3 The Lorde cut off all flattering lippes, and the tongue that speaketh proude things:
  • Ps 31:18 : 18 Let the lying lips be made dumme, which cruelly, proudly and spitefully speake against the righteous.
  • Ps 52:1-2 : 1 To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid to giue instruction. When Doeg the Edomite came and shewed Saul, and saide to him, Dauid is come to the house of Abimelech. Why boastest thou thy selfe in thy wickednesse, O man of power? the louing kindenesse of God indureth dayly. 2 Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.
  • 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.