An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, but the righteous escapes from trouble.
Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.
The righteous is delivered from trouble, and the wicked walks into it instead.
They are brought to ruin, with their own tongues turned against them; all who see them will wag their heads.
And the king commanded, and those men who had maliciously accused Daniel were brought and cast into the den of lions—they, their children, and their wives. And before they reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces.
if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth,
then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them.
A fool's lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating. A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
And all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
You destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, “God do so to me and more also if this word does not cost Adonijah his life!
But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity,
the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys; and in them let my name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”
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