Proverbs 15:26

English Standard Version 2016

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, but gracious words are pure.

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O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil, that you may be saved. How long shall your wicked thoughts lodge within you?

To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

My heart overflows with a pleasing theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind.

The Lord tears down the house of the proud but maintains the widow’s boundaries.

Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.

Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

Those of crooked heart are an abomination to the Lord, but those of blameless ways are his delight.