Verse 20
The tongue of the iust man is as fined siluer: but the heart of the wicked is litle worth.
Referenced Verses
- Prov 12:18 : 18 There is that speaketh wordes like the prickings of a sworde: but the tongue of wise men is health.
- Prov 15:4 : 4 A wholesome tongue is as a tree of life: but the frowardnes therof is the breaking of ye minde.
- Prov 16:13 : 13 Righteous lips are the delite of Kings, and the King loueth him that speaketh right things.
- Prov 23:7 : 7 For as though he thought it in his heart, so will hee say vnto thee, Eate and drinke: but his heart is not with thee.
- Prov 25:11-12 : 11 A word spoken in his place, is like apples of golde with pictures of siluer. 12 He that reprooueth the wise, and the obedient eare, is as a golden earering and an ornament of fine golde.
- Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitfull and wicked aboue all things, who can knowe it?
- Matt 12:34-35 : 34 O generations of vipers, howe can you speake good things, when ye are euill? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth foorth good things: & an euill man out of an euill treasure, bringeth forth euill things.
- Gen 6:5 : 5 When the Lorde sawe that the wickednesse of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughtes of his heart were onely euill continually,
- Gen 8:21 : 21 And the Lord smelled a sauour of rest, and the Lord said in his heart, I will hencefoorth curse the ground no more for mans cause: for the imagination of mans heart is euill, euen from his youth: neither will I smite any more all things liuing, as I haue done.
- Prov 8:19 : 19 My fruite is better then golde, euen then fine golde, and my reuenues better then fine siluer.