Bible Cross References
heart
Proverbs 15:2
The tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.
Proverbs 16:23
The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.
1 Kings 3:23-28
23
And the king said, The one says, This is my son, who lives, and your son is the dead one; and the other says, No! But your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.
24
And the king said, Bring me a sword. So they brought a sword before the king.
25
And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to one, and half to the other.
26
Then the woman whose son was living spoke to the king, for her womb yearned for her son; and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and do not put him to death! But the other said, Let him be neither mine nor yours, but divide him.
27
So the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and do not put him to death; she is his mother.
28
And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had rendered, and they feared his presence; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to execute justice.
Ecclesiastes 5:2
Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be hasty to say a word before God. For God is in Heaven, and you are on earth; therefore let your words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:6
Do not permit your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?
1 Peter 3:15
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;
the mouth
Proverbs 10:19
In the abundance of words there is no end of transgression, but he who restrains his lips is prudent.
Proverbs 13:16
Every prudent one acts with knowledge, but a fool lays open his folly.
Proverbs 29:11
A fool vents all his emotions; but a wise one keeps still until afterwards.
Proverbs 29:20
Do you see a man hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Ecclesiastes 10:12-14
12
The words of a wise mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow him up.
13
The words of his mouth begin with foolishness; and the end of his talk is wicked madness.
14
A fool also multiplies words; a man does not know what shall be; and who can tell him what shall be after him?
Matthew 12:34
Offspring of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Titus 1:10
For there are many insubordinate, idle talkers and seducers, especially those of the circumcision,
Titus 1:11
whose mouths must be stopped, who overturn whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.
James 3:6-8
6
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. Thus the tongue is set among our members, defiling the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by Gehenna.
7
For every kind of beast and bird, and of creeping thing and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.
8
But no man is able to tame the tongue. It is an uncontrollable evil, full of deadly poison.
2 Peter 2:18
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through wantonness, the ones who have actually escaped from those living in error.