Proverbs 6:12–13

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

¹³And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

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

²⁴Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

²Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.

³Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

⁴Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

⁷Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?

³⁰Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

⁴A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

¹³The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

¹⁰For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:

¹¹Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.

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.

⁶The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.

¹²To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

¹⁴Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

³For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.

⁷His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

³The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

⁸They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

⁹They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

²⁸¶ And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

²¹Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

²One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

⁸¶ And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the Lord, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:

⁹And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

¹⁰And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

¹⁹Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

¹²Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

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

⁶Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.