1 Samuel 24:13
24:13 It’s like the old proverb says: ‘From evil people evil proceeds.’ But my hand will not be against you.
1 Samuel 25:10-11
25:10 But Nabal responded to David’s servants, “Who is David, and who is this son of Jesse? This is a time when many servants are breaking away from their masters!
25:11 Should I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don’t even know where they came from!”
Jeremiah 13:23
13:23 But there is little hope for you ever doing good,
you who are so accustomed to doing evil.
Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin?
Can a leopard remove its spots?
Matthew 12:34-36
12:34 Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.
12:35 The good person
brings good things out of his
good treasury,
and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury.
12:36 I
tell you that on the day of judgment, people will give an account for every worthless word they speak.
Matthew 15:19
15:19 For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
James 3:5-6
3:5 So too the tongue is a small part of the body,
yet it has great pretensions.
Think
how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.
3:6 And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents
the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It
pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence – and is set on fire by hell.