Proverbs 10:20

¹⁸There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

⁵The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

⁹The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

³⁴You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. ³⁵The good man out of his good treasure^[+] brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

⁷for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

⁴A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

¹³Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.

²¹The LORD smelled the pleasant aroma. The LORD said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

¹⁹My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver.

¹¹A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver. ¹²As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.