When some fool starts an argument, he is asking for a beating.

Show me a conceited person and I will show you someone who is arrogant, proud, and inconsiderate.

If you plant the seeds of injustice, disaster will spring up, and your oppression of others will end.

Selfishness only causes trouble. You are much better off to trust the LORD.

Stop your loud boasting; silence your proud words. For the LORD is a God who knows, and he judges all that people do.

God will rescue you from slander; he will save you when destruction comes.

Silence those flattering tongues, O LORD! Close those boastful mouths that say,

Silence those liars--- all the proud and arrogant who speak with contempt about the righteous.

Why do you boast, great one, of your evil? God's faithfulness is eternal.

You make plans to ruin others; your tongue is like a sharp razor. You are always inventing lies.

I am surrounded by enemies, who are like lions hungry for human flesh. Their teeth are like spears and arrows; their tongues are like sharp swords.

And I wanted to know about the ten horns on its head and the horn that had come up afterward and had made three of the horns fall. It had eyes and a mouth and was boasting proudly. It was more terrifying than any of the others.

So it is with the tongue: small as it is, it can boast about great things. Just think how large a forest can be set on fire by a tiny flame!

And the tongue is like a fire. It is a world of wrong, occupying its place in our bodies and spreading evil through our whole being. It sets on fire the entire course of our existence with the fire that comes to it from hell itself.

They make proud and stupid statements, and use immoral bodily lusts to trap those who are just beginning to escape from among people who live in error.

After this I saw the temple in heaven open, with the Sacred Tent in it.

The seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the temple, dressed in clean shining linen and with gold bands tied around their chests.

The words of the wicked are murderous, but the words of the righteous rescue those who are threatened.

If you confess that Jesus is Lord and believe that God raised him from death, you will be saved.

For it is by our faith that we are put right with God; it is by our confession that we are saved.

Because you have kept my command to endure, I will also keep you safe from the time of trouble which is coming upon the world to test all the people on earth.

They won the victory over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the truth which they proclaimed; and they were willing to give up their lives and die.