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Proverbs 26:23
Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.
Proverbs 26:23 · Berean Standard Bible
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Proverbs 26:23 in other translations
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
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In context
20 Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases.
21 Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
22 The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.
23 Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.
24 A hateful man disguises himself with his speech, but he lays up deceit in his heart.
25 When he speaks graciously, do not believe him, for seven abominations fill his heart.
26 Though his hatred is concealed by deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
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