Proverbs 26:7

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

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

“Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: ‘Behold, I have sworn by my great name,’ says Yahweh, ‘that my name will no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, “As the Lord Yahweh lives.”

He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;

Job again took up his parable, and said,

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another.”

Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

Like a thorn bush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.

For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.

It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”

Leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,

They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”

He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him.

“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.

All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”

He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;

Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

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.

Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.

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

Job again took up his parable, and said,

Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will solve my riddle on the harp.

But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,

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.

I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?

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

Don’t snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, for I put my hope in your ordinances.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.

Arrogant speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.

Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

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

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

“There is no peace”, says Yahweh, “for the wicked.”

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.

What has my beloved to do in my house, since she has behaved lewdly with many, and the holy flesh has passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.”

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.

Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he will save his soul alive.

The Lord Yahweh says, “No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.

In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, ‘We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’ ”

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye.

You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today.

Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works?

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

Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet, and come out of him!”

He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’ ”

He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day,

Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” When the demon had thrown him down in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no harm.

Or how can you tell your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye.

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

Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people,

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

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.’