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Mark 7:15
Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.” (niv)
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James 3:6
The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. (niv)
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Matthew 12:34-37
You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” (niv)
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James 4:1
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? (niv)
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Hebrews 7:6
This man, however, did not trace his descent from Levi, yet he collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises. (niv)
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Psalms 41:6
When one of them comes to see me, he speaks falsely, while his heart gathers slander; then he goes out and spreads it around. (niv)
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Micah 2:1
Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it. (niv)
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James 1:14-15
but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed.Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. (niv)