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12 A scoundrel and a villain
    goes around with crooked speech,(A)

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12 A troublemaker and a villain,
    who goes about with a corrupt mouth,

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14 with perverted mind devising evil,
    continually sowing discord;(A)

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14     who plots evil(A) with deceit in his heart—
    he always stirs up conflict.(B)

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18 a heart that devises wicked plans,
    feet that hurry to run to evil,(A)

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18         a heart that devises wicked schemes,
        feet that are quick to rush into evil,(A)

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And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 3.6 Gk Gehenna

The tongue also is a fire,(A) a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body,(B) sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.(C)

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