Psalms 12:4

⁴ They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”

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Psalms 59:6–8

⁶ They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city. ⁷ See what they spew from their mouths— sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?” ⁸ But You, O LORD, laugh at them; You scoff at all the nations.

Psalms 73:8–10

⁸ They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression. ⁹ They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth. ¹⁰ So their people return to this place and drink up waters in abundance.

1 Clement 15:4–6

⁴ And again He saith, They loved Him with their mouth, and with their tongue they lied unto Him; and their heart was not upright with Him, neither were they steadfast in His covenant. (1CL) ⁵ For this cause let the deceitful lips be made dumb which speak iniquity agains… (1CL)

James 3:7–9

⁷ All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man, ⁸ but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. ⁹ With the tongue we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who…

Job 15:4–6

⁴ But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him. ⁵ For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. ⁶ Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.

Psalms 50:18–20

¹⁸ When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers. ¹⁹ You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit. ²⁰ You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.

Sirach 22:26–27

²⁶ If any evil happens to me because of him, everyone who hears it will beware of him. (WEB) ²⁷ Who will set a watch over my mouth, and a seal of shrewdness upon my lips, that I may not fall from it, and that my tongue may not destroy me? (WEB)

Sirach 23:7–9

⁷ Listen, my children, to the discipline of the mouth. He who keeps it will not be caught. (WEB) ⁸ The sinner will be overpowered through his lips. By them, the insulter and the arrogant will stumble. (WEB) ⁹ Don’t accustom your mouth to an oath, and don’t be accustomed to namin… (WEB)

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