Proverbs 10:20
The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked has little worth.
Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword. The tongue of the wise brings a cure.
Genesis 6:5
Jehovah saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become. Every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.
Genesis 8:21
Jehovah smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: Never again will I curse the ground because of man, for the intent of his heart is evil from childhood. I will never again destroy every living creature, as I have done.
Proverbs 8:19
My fruit is better than gold, yes, better than fine gold. My yield is better than choice silver.
Proverbs 15:4
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it destroys life.
Proverbs 16:13
Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They love the man who speaks what is right.
Proverbs 23:7
Just as he thinks in his heart: Eat and drink, he says to you. But his heart is not with you.
Proverbs 25:11-12
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately corrupt. Who can understand it?
Matthew 12:34-35
You offspring of vipers. How can you who are evil speak good things? Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.