For the sins of the lips ruin draweth nigh to the evil man: but the just shall escape out of distress.

For the sins of the lips ruin draweth nigh to the evil man: but the just shall escape out of distress.

Proverbs 6:2 Do, therefore, my son, what I say, and deliver thyself: because thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste, stir up thy friend:

Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise adorneth knowledge: but the mouth of fools bubbleth out folly.

Proverbs 18:6,7 The lips of a fool intermeddle with strife: and his mouth provoketh quarrels. . . .

1 Kings 2:23 Then king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying: So and so may God do to me, and add more, if Adonias hath not spoken this word against his own life.

Psalm 5:6 Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: thou wilt destroy all that speak a lie. The bloody and the deceitful man the Lord will abhor.

Psalm 64:8 And their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled;

Daniel 6:24 And by the king's commandment, those men were brought that had accused Daniel: and they were cast into the lions' den, they and their children, and their wives: and they did not reach the bottom of the den, before the lions caught them, and broke all their bones in pieces.

Matthew 27:25 And the whole people answering, said: His blood be upon us and upon our children.

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Proverbs 11:8 The dissembler with his mouth deceiveth his friend: but the just shall be delivered by knowledge.

Genesis 48:16 The angel that delivereth me from all evils, bless these boys: and let my name be called upon them, and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.

2 Samuel 4:9 But David answered Rechab, and Baana his brother, the sons of Remmon the Berothite, and said to them: As the Lord liveth, who hath delivered my soul out of all distress,

Psalm 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will the Lord deliver them.

Ecclesiastes 7:18 It is good that thou shouldst hold up the just, yea and from him withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God, neglecteth nothing.

Romans 8:35-37 Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword? . . .

2 Peter 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from temptation, but to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be tormented: