Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
Devouring
General references
Bible References
Devouring
1 Samuel 22:18
And the king will say to Doeg, Turn thou about, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite will turn about, and he will fall upon the priests and kill in that day eighty and five men lifting up a linen ephod.
James 3:6
(And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell.
General references
Psalm 109:17
And he will love cursing, and it shall come to him: and he delighted not in praise, and it shall be far from him.
Proverbs 29:12
A ruler listening to the word of falsehood, all serving him are unjust