But the things that proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and those things make the man unholy.
For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to notice his iniquity —or hate it.
The lips of the righteous know what is pleasing, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.
The tongue of the wise treats knowledge correctly, but the mouth of fools spouts folly.
A righteous heart thinks before answering, but a wicked mouth blurts out evil things.
Guard your heart diligently, for from it flow the springs of life.
A scoundrel, a wicked man, is one who goes around with a perverse mouth,
You brood of vipers! How can you who are evil say anything good? For from the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.
It’s not what goes into the mouth that makes the man unholy; but what comes out of the mouth, this makes the man unholy.”
“Don’t you grasp that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and then is ejected into the sewer?
And He continued, “It is what comes out of the man that makes the man unholy.
He said to him, ‘By the words of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked slave! You knew that I am strict, taking what I did not make and reaping what I did not sow?
As the old proverb goes, ‘Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness’—but my hand will never be on you.