Proverbs 6:19

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

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

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward.

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

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

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

He said to him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “ ‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

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.

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

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

A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.

A truthful witness saves souls, but a false witness is deceitful.

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

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

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.

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

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

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”

She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,

“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”

he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

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

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

“Yahweh says, ‘Don’t deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely depart from us;” for they will not depart.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

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.

and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”

They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

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

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

A false witness will perish. A man who listens speaks to eternity.

Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

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

“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

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.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.