The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
and
Exodus 4:11,12,15 And the LORD said to him, Who has made man's mouth? or who makes …
Jeremiah 1:7-9 But the LORD said to me, Say not, I am a child: for you shall go …
Matthew 10:19,20 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what you shall speak…
Luke 12:11,12 And when they bring you to the synagogues, and to magistrates, and …
Luke 21:14,15 Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what you …
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
the ways
Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof are …
Proverbs 21:2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD ponders the hearts.
Proverbs 30:12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is …
1 Samuel 15:13,14 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said to him, Blessed be you of …
Psalm 36:2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found …
Jeremiah 2:22,23 For though you wash you with nitre, and take you much soap, yet your …
Luke 18:9-11 And he spoke this parable to certain which trusted in themselves …
Romans 7:7-9 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. No, I had not …
but
Proverbs 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders …
Proverbs 24:12 If you say, Behold, we knew it not; does not he that ponders the …
1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the …
Isaiah 26:7 The way of the just is uprightness: you, most upright, do weigh the …
Jeremiah 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every …
Daniel 5:27 TEKEL; You are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
Luke 16:15 And he said to them, You are they which justify yourselves before …
Revelation 2:18,23 And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things said …
Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
commit
Job 5:8 I would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause:
Psalm 37:4,5 Delight yourself also in the LORD: and he shall give you the desires …
Psalm 55:22 Cast your burden on the LORD, and he shall sustain you: he shall …
Matthew 6:25 Therefore I say to you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall …
Luke 12:22 And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Take no thought …
Philippians 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication …
1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care on him; for he cares for you.
thy thoughts
Job 22:28 You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you: …
Isaiah 7:5-7 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil …
The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Lord
Isaiah 43:7,21 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him …
Romans 11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom …
Revelation 4:11 You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for …
yea
Job 21:30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall …
Romans 9:22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known…
1 Peter 2:8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which …
2 Peter 2:3,9 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise …
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
that
Proverbs 6:16,17 These six things does the LORD hate: yes, seven are an abomination to him…
Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the …
Job 40:12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down …
James 4:6 But he gives more grace. Why he said, God resists the proud, but …
though
Proverbs 11:21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but …
unpunished
Exodus 20:7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain; for the …
Isaiah 3:11 Woe to the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his …
Romans 2:8,9 But to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but …
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
Proverbs 20:28 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy.
Psalm 85:10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed …
Daniel 4:27 Why, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your …
Micah 7:18-20 Who is a God like to you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the …
Luke 11:41 But rather give alms of such things as you have; and, behold, all …
John 15:2 Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every …
Acts 15:9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
1 Peter 1:22 Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through …
by the
Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the …
Proverbs 14:16,17 A wise man fears, and departs from evil: but the fool rages, and is confident…
Genesis 20:11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not …
Nehemiah 5:9,15 Also I said, It is not good that you do…
Job 1:1-8 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man …
2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves …
Ephesians 5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
please
Psalm 69:31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that …
Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Philippians 4:18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus …
Colossians 1:10 That you might walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful …
Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing …
Hebrews 13:21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you …
1 John 3:22 And whatever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, …
he
Genesis 27:41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father …
Genesis 32:6,7,28 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother …
Genesis 33:4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, …
Jeremiah 15:11 The LORD said, Truly it shall be well with your remnant…
Acts 9:1,2,19,20 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the …
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
a divine sentence
Proverbs 16:12,13 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne …
Genesis 44:5,15 Is not this it in which my lord drinks, and whereby indeed he divines? …
Deuteronomy 17:18-20 And it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom…
2 Samuel 23:3,4 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that rules …
Psalm 45:6,7 Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the scepter of your kingdom …
Psalm 72:1-4 Give the king your judgments, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son…
Psalm 99:4 The king's strength also loves judgment; you do establish equity, …
Isaiah 32:1,2 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule …
Jeremiah 23:5,6 Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will raise to David …
transgresseth
Hosea 10:4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus …
Amos 5:7 You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
Amos 6:12 Shall horses run on the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for …
A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
just
Proverbs 11:1 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 20:10,23 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination …
Leviticus 19:35,36 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in length, in weight, …
Deuteronomy 25:13-15 You shall not have in your bag divers weights, a great and a small…
Ezekiel 45:10 You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Hosea 12:7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.
Amos 8:5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and …
Micah 6:11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag …
weights
It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.
The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
highway
Proverbs 4:24-27 Put away from you a fraudulent mouth, and perverse lips put far from you…
Isaiah 35:8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called …
Acts 10:35 But in every nation he that fears him, and works righteousness, is …
Acts 24:16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void …
Titus 2:10-14 Not purloining, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn …
he
Proverbs 10:9 He that walks uprightly walks surely: but he that perverts his ways …
Proverbs 19:16 He that keeps the commandment keeps his own soul; but he that despises …
Matthew 24:13 But he that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved.
Hebrews 10:39 But we are not of them who draw back to perdition; but of them that …
Jude 1:21,24 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our …
Revelation 3:10 Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you …
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 11:2 When pride comes, then comes shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Proverbs 17:19 He loves transgression that loves strife: and he that exalts his …
Proverbs 18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor is humility.
Proverbs 29:23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Esther 3:5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, …
Esther 6:6 So Haman came in. And the king said to him, What shall be done to …
Esther 7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. …
Isaiah 2:11,12 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men …
Isaiah 37:10-13,38 Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not your …
Daniel 4:30-37 The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have …
Daniel 5:22,24 And you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though …
Obadiah 1:3,4 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you that dwell in the clefts …
Matthew 26:33-35,74 Peter answered and said to him, Though all men shall be offended …
Romans 11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by …
1 Timothy 3:6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation …
Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
to be
Psalm 34:18 The LORD is near to them that are of a broken heart; and saves such …
Psalm 138:6 Though the LORD be high, yet has he respect to the lowly: but the …
Isaiah 57:15 For thus said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose …
Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Luke 1:51-53 He has showed strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in …
Luke 18:13,14 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as …
than
Exodus 15:9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the …
Isaiah 9:3 You have multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy …
Isaiah 10:6,13-15 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people …
Isaiah 53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall …
He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he.
handleth
Proverbs 8:35 For whoever finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of the LORD.
Proverbs 13:15 Good understanding gives favor: but the way of transgressors is hard.
Proverbs 17:2 A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causes shame, and …
Proverbs 19:8 He that gets wisdom loves his own soul: he that keeps understanding …
Proverbs 24:3-5 Through wisdom is an house built; and by understanding it is established…
Genesis 41:38-40 And Pharaoh said to his servants, Can we find such a one as this …
Daniel 1:19-21 And the king communed with them; and among them all was found none …
Matthew 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the middle of wolves: be you …
whoso
Proverbs 22:19,20 That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to you this …
1 Chronicles 5:20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered …
Psalm 2:12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish from the way, when …
Psalm 34:8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusts in him.
Psalm 125:1 They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot …
Psalm 146:5 Happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is …
Isaiah 26:3,4 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: …
Isaiah 30:18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious to you, …
Jeremiah 17:7,8 Blessed is the man that trusts in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is…
Daniel 3:28 Then Nebuchadnezzar spoke, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, …
Daniel 6:23 Then was the king exceedingly glad for him, and commanded that they …
Ephesians 1:12,13 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ…
The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
wise
Proverbs 16:23 The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.
Proverbs 10:8 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs 23:15 My son, if your heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
1 Kings 3:12 Behold, I have done according to your words: see, I have given you …
Romans 16:19 For your obedience is come abroad to all men. I am glad therefore …
James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, …
the sweetness
Proverbs 16:24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 15:7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish …
Proverbs 27:9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so does the sweetness of …
Psalm 45:2 You are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into your …
Ecclesiastes 12:10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which …
Isaiah 50:4 The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should …
Luke 4:22 And all bore him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which …
John 7:46 The officers answered, Never man spoke like this man.
Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
a wellspring
Proverbs 10:11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covers …
Proverbs 13:14 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Proverbs 14:27 The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Proverbs 18:4 The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring …
John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, He that hears my word, and believes on …
John 6:63,68 It is the spirit that vivifies; the flesh profits nothing: the words …
the instructions
Proverbs 15:2,28 The tongue of the wise uses knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools …
Matthew 15:14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind …
Matthew 23:16-26 Woe to you, you blind guides, which say, Whoever shall swear by the …
Luke 6:39,40 And he spoke a parable to them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall …
The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
pleasant
Proverbs 12:18 There is that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue …
Proverbs 15:23,26 A man has joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due …
Proverbs 23:16 Yes, my reins shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.
Proverbs 25:11,12 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver…
Proverbs 27:9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so does the sweetness of …
Deuteronomy 32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the …
Songs 4:11 Your lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are …
John 20:19-21 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week…
an
Proverbs 24:13,14 My son, eat you honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which …
Psalm 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold: …
Psalm 119:103 How sweet are your words to my taste! yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Jeremiah 15:16 Your words were found, and I did eat them; and your word was to me …
health
Proverbs 3:8 It shall be health to your navel, and marrow to your bones.
Proverbs 4:22 For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
an ungodly man a man of Belial
1 Samuel 25:17 Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined …
2 Samuel 20:1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, …
diggeth
Proverbs 2:4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;
Psalm 17:14,15 From men which are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which …
Isaiah 5:18 Woe to them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it …
Habakkuk 2:13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor …
in
Psalm 52:2-4 The tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully…
Psalm 57:4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on …
James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among …
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
froward
Proverbs 6:14,19 Frowardness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord…
Proverbs 15:18 A wrathful man stirs up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeases strife.
Proverbs 18:8 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the …
Proverbs 26:20-22 Where no wood is, there the fire goes out: so where there is no talebearer, …
Proverbs 29:22 An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression.
Proverbs 30:33 Surely the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing …
1 Timothy 6:3-5 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even …
James 3:14-16 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, …
soweth
Proverbs 17:9 He that covers a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a …
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which …
1 Samuel 24:9 And David said to Saul, Why hear you men's words, saying, Behold, …
Romans 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, …
2 Corinthians 12:20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, …
A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
Proverbs 1:10-14 My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not…
Proverbs 2:12-15 To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks …
Proverbs 3:31 Envy you not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
1 Samuel 19:11,17 Saul also sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to …
1 Samuel 22:7-9 Then Saul said to his servants that stood about him, Hear now, you Benjamites…
1 Samuel 23:19-21 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David …
Nehemiah 6:13 Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, …
2 Peter 3:17 You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before, beware …
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
shutteth
Proverbs 6:12-14 A naughty person, a wicked man, walks with a fraudulent mouth…
Proverbs 10:10 He that winks with the eye causes sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
Isaiah 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and …
Matthew 13:15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of …
John 3:20 For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the …
moving
Proverbs 16:27 An ungodly man digs up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
Micah 7:3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, …
Matthew 14:7,8 Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she would ask…
Matthew 27:23-26 And the governor said, Why, what evil has he done? But they cried …
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
hoary
Proverbs 20:29 The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men …
Leviticus 19:32 You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the …
Job 32:6,7 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am …
if
Genesis 47:7-10 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: …
1 Samuel 12:2-5 And now, behold, the king walks before you: and I am old and gray …
1 Chronicles 29:10 Why David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David …
Ecclesiastes 4:13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who …
Luke 1:6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments …
Luke 2:29,37,38 Lord, now let you your servant depart in peace, according to your word…
Philemon 1:9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech you, being such an one as Paul …
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
