Proverbs 16:27

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents.

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

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

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves, walk in the flame of your fire, and among the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: you will lie down in sorrow.

Yahweh of Armies says: “The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown. Her high gates will be burned with fire. The peoples will labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they will be weary.”

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

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.

If he says, ‘It is well,’ your servant shall have peace; but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.

Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness. They have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.”

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

certain wicked fellows have gone out from among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods,” which you have not known,

Please don’t let my lord pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men, whom you sent.

Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion do we have in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So all Israel departed to their tents.

Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

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

Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

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

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

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

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

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.

For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;

Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;” Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”

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

who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.

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

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

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,

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.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house; for he is such a worthless fellow that one can’t speak to him.”

Then all the wicked men and worthless fellows, of those who went with David, answered and said, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart.”

The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?” The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

There happened to be there a wicked fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”

The matter is not so. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David. Just deliver him, and I will depart from the city.” The woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”

But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand,

King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me about how to answer these people?”

The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

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

The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.

Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

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.

One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope,

Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’ ”

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.