Proverbs 10:11–14

¹⁴The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

²⁹Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

²⁰The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.

²¹The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

⁶Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

⁴The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.

³²The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.

⁷The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.

²²Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

²³The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.

²⁴Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

³⁰The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

³¹The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

¹²The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

¹³The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

¹⁴A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

⁵Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

⁶And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue 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.

⁷For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

⁸But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

³⁴O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

³⁵A 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.

³⁶But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

³⁷For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

¹⁵There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

⁴²The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

⁸And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

⁴Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

⁵Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

⁶Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

⁷Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

⁹He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

¹⁸A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

²⁰Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

¹FROM whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

²⁷An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

²⁵He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be made fat.

²²An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

³A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.

³²But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

⁴The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

¹⁰He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

¹¹The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

²¹The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

³¹The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

²³A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

⁷The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.

¹⁰A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

²⁹Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

¹⁵There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

²²Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

⁹Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

²²And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?

²²He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

¹²¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.

⁸The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

⁷A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

³He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

¹⁰He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

⁹Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

⁶For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

⁷But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

³⁵A 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.

⁴⁴¶ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

⁵²Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.

⁵A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

¹THROUGH desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

¹⁵The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

⁸He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.

²³Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.