Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Contention » Whose lips enter into contention
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Destruction » What destroys people
The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
for we brought nothing into the world. It is clear that neither can we carry anything out, but having food and covering we will be content with these. But those who want to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which sink men in destruction and ruin.
Fools » Lips of, a snare to the soul
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Snares » What is a snare
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
And the agent of LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, I made you go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers. And I said, I will never break my covenant with you. And ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. Ye shall break down their altars. But ye have not hearkened to my voice. Why have ye done this? Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you, but they shall be [as thorns] in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.
but mingled themselves with the nations, and learned their works, and served their idols, which became a snare to them.
And thou shall consume all the peoples that LORD thy God shall deliver to thee. Thine eye shall not pity them. Neither shall thou serve their gods, for that will be a snare to thee.
And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River. For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and thou shall drive them out before thee. Thou shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me, for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to thee.
Observe thou that which I command thee this day. Behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where thou go, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee.
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that ye love LORD your God. Else if ye do at all go back, and cling to the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you, know for a certainty that LORD your God will no more drive these nations from out of your sight, but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, and a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good
It is a snare to a man to say rashly, [It is] holy. And to make inquiry after vows.
Speaking » Folly in
But I say to you, that every idle word, whatever men may speak, they will render account about it in the day of judgment. For from thy words thou will be justified, and from thy words thou will be condemned.
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
For a dream comes with a multitude of business, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.
For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, and in many words. But fear thou God.
[As] a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
A fool utters all his anger, but a wise man keeps it back and calms it.
He who guards his mouth keeps his life. He who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.
See thou a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly.
He who gives answer before he hears, it is folly and shame to him.
A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.
The tongue of the wise utters knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours out folly.
Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a foolish man is a present destruction.
also indecency, and foolish talking or jesting, things not befitting, but thankfulness instead.
In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes thee that thou answer? I also could speak as ye do, if your soul were in my soul's stead. I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like to him.
Slander not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be held guilty.
The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. A fool also multiplies words; [yet] man knows not what shall be, and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?
Speech/communication » The mouth of a fool
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
For a dream comes with a multitude of business, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.
A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.
The tongue of the wise utters knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours out folly.
Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a foolish man is a present destruction.
In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool will swallow himself up. The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. A fool also multiplies words; [yet] man knows not what shall be, and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?