Proverbs 11:6

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore Yahweh will return your wickedness on your own head.

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers;

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.

If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up on my neck. He made my strength fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.

“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘As I live, I will surely bring on his own head my oath that he has despised and my covenant that he has broken.

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

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.

Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.

It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.

“If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,

“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.

They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before Yahweh.

“If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason, saying, ‘In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, “What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?

The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn’t stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed.

The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.

Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

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

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

you are trapped by the words of your mouth; you are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing and be glad.

I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:

“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”

“Therefore now Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the middle of Judah, to leave yourselves no one remaining;

It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.

Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be arrogant in my holy mountain.

He said, “This is Wickedness;” and he threw her down into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.

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

All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”

saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen.”

Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.