Proverbs 10:20
What the righteous say is like the best silver, but what the wicked think is of little value.
Proverbs 12:18
Speaking recklessly is like the thrusts of a sword, but the words of the wise bring healing.
Genesis 6:5
But the Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.
Genesis 8:21
And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.
Proverbs 8:19
My fruit is better than the purest gold, and what I produce is better than choice silver.
Proverbs 15:4
Speech that heals is like a life-giving tree, but a perverse tongue breaks the spirit.
Proverbs 16:13
The delight of kings is righteous counsel, and they love the one who speaks uprightly.
Proverbs 23:7
for he is like someone calculating the cost in his mind. "Eat and drink," he says to you, but his heart is not with you;
Proverbs 25:11-12
Like apples of gold in settings of silver, so is a word skillfully spoken.
Jeremiah 17:9
The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?
Matthew 12:34-35
Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.