Proverbs 16:27

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• James 3:6
  The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
• Proverbs 6:14
  With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.
• Psalm 17:14–15
  …from such men, O LORD, by Your hand—from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.
• 1 Samuel 25:17
  Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”
• Proverbs 6:12
  A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,
• Psalm 57:4
  My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts—with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
• Psalm 52:2–4
  Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
• Isaiah 5:18
  Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,
• Proverbs 2:4
  …if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,
• Habakkuk 2:13
  Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?
• 2 Samuel 20:1
  Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”

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Character of the Wicked: Ungodly· Fire: The Tongue· Speaking: Evil