Proverbs 14:3

A fool's proud speech invites punishment, but the wise are protected by their words. Speech can wound the speaker or guard him.

Cross-references · 18

• Prov 12:6The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
• Jas 3:5–6Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
• Rev 12:11And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
• Rom 10:9–10That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
• Rev 3:10Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
• 2 Pet 2:18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
• Ps 52:1–2Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
• Prov 22:8He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
• Job 5:21Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
• Prov 21:24Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.
• Prov 28:25He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
• Dan 7:20And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.
• Prov 18:6A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
• 1 Sam 2:3Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
• Ps 12:3The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
• Ps 57:4My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
• Rev 15:5–6And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:
• Ps 31:18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

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