But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.
The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.
You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.”
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse.
A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,
As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness.’ But my hand shall not be against you.
He said to him, ‘I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
The words of his mouth are trouble and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good.
And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven.
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