Verse 20
The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
Referenced Verses
- Prov 12:18 : 18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
- Prov 15:4 : 4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
- Prov 16:13 : 13 Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.
- Prov 23:7 : 7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
- Prov 25:11-12 : 11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. 12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reover upon an obedient ear.
- Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
- Matt 12:34-35 : 34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
- Gen 6:5 : 5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
- Gen 8:21 : 21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
- Prov 8:19 : 19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.