But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaTherefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulBeloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 John
General EpistlesBut those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our's.
Mark
Gospels / MarkWill God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
Job
Wisdom / JobLet the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
James
General EpistlesAnd Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
Genesis
Law / MosesHow long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
Psalms
PoetryThen went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.
Nehemiah
HistoryHast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.
1 Samuel
HistoryA time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
Ecclesiastes
WisdomGo not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
Micah
Minor ProphetsHe that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John
Gospels / JohnIf I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
Job
WisdomAnd it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
Proverbs
WisdomSet ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
Exodus
LawAnd when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken?
Numbers
LawWoe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.