These six {things} doth the LORD hate: yea, seven {are} an abomination unto him: {unto...: Heb. of his soul}

A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word {spoken} in due season, how good {is it}! {due...: Heb. his season}

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. {strength: Heb. rock}

[To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.] My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue {is} the pen of a ready writer. {Maschil: or, of instruction} {is inditing: Heb. boileth, or, bubbleth up}

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

The thought of foolishness {is} sin: and the scorner {is} an abomination to men.

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; {imaginations: or, reasonings}

Pleasant words {are as} an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts {are} thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction {are} in their paths. {destruction: Heb. breaking}

Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, {even} the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and {that which was} written {was} upright, {even} words of truth. {acceptable...: Heb. words of delight}

The way of man {is} froward and strange: but {as for} the pure, his work {is} right.

But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?