Proverbs 17:20
He that hath a wayward heart findeth no good; And he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
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- James 3:6–8 And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison.
- Proverbs 10:31 The mouth of the righteous bringeth forth wisdom; But the perverse tongue shall be cut off.
- Psalm 18:26 With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.