1 Kings 20:40

David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’ ”

Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”

Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”

Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Didn’t I adjure you by Yahweh, and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and walk anywhere else, you shall surely die?’ You said to me, ‘The saying that I have heard is good.’

yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.

“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

You will mention the message from Yahweh no more: for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies, our God.

The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.

Then his lord called him in, and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.

Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’

Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.

But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.

“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.

You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

knowing that such a one is perverted and sins, being self-condemned.

If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.