The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
The purpose in a man's heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death.
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,
Good sense is a fountain of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.
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