Matthew 15:11Open English Bible (Commonwealth)
It is not what enters a person’s mouth that defiles them, but what comes out from their mouth – that does defile them!’
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Psalms 5:9
For their mouth is a stranger to truth, their heart is a pit of destruction. Their throat is a wide open grave, their tongue the smooth tongue of the hypocrite.
Psalms 7:16
On their own heads their mischief comes back; on their own skulls their violence comes down.
Psalms 8:2
from the mouths of children and infants. You have built a fortress against your enemies, to silence the foe and the rebel.
Psalms 10:7
Their mouths are full of deceit and oppression: under their tongues lurks mischief and wrong.
Psalms 17:3
When you test my heart when you visit at night, and assay me like silver – you can find no evil. I am determined that my mouth should not lie.