Proverbs 17:20
One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
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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 defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna. For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind; but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
- Proverbs 10:31 The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
- Psalm 18:26 With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.