1 Peter 3:15

but reverence the Lord God in your hearts, and be always ready to answer every one that asks of you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

Matthew 12:34

Generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Titus 1:10-11

For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

James 3:6-8

And the tongue is a fire, the world of iniquity. So is the tongue placed among our members, defiling the whole body, setting on fire the course of life, and being set on fire by hell.

2 Peter 2:18

For by speaking boastful words of folly, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, and through lasciviousness, those who had really escaped from those who live in error.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.

Heart

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Heart

1 Peter 3:15
but reverence the Lord God in your hearts, and be always ready to answer every one that asks of you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

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Matthew 15:18
But those things which go out from the mouth, come from the heart; and these defile the man.