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Wisdom 1:11 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Beware then of unprofitable murmuring, and keep your tongue from slander; because no secret utterance will go on its way void, and a lying mouth destroys a soul. "
Wisdom 1:11
Verse in Context
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9 For in his counsels the ungodly will be searched out, and the sound of his words will come to the Lord to bring his lawless deeds to conviction;
10 because a jealous ear listens to all things, and the noise of murmurings is not hidden.
11 Beware then of unprofitable murmuring, and keep your tongue from slander; because no secret utterance will go on its way void, and a lying mouth destroys a soul.
12 Don’t court death in the error of your life. Don’t draw destruction upon yourselves by the works of your hands;
13 because God didn’t make death, neither does he delight when the living perish.
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Wisdom 1:1
"Love righteousness, all you who are judges of the earth. Think of the Lord with a good mind. Seek him in singleness of heart,"
Wisdom 1:2
"because he is found by those who don’t put him to the test, and is manifested to those who trust him."
Wisdom 1:3
"for crooked thoughts separate from God. His Power convicts when it is tested, and exposes the foolish;"
Wisdom 1:4
"because wisdom will not enter into a soul that devises evil, nor dwell in a body that is enslaved by sin."
Wisdom 1:5
"For a holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit, and will depart from thoughts that are without understanding, and will be ashamed when unrighteousness has come in."
Wisdom 1:6
"For wisdom is a spirit who loves man, and she will not hold a blasphemer guiltless for his lips, because God is witness of his inmost self, and is a true overseer of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue."
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