"Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross."
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And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.
Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.
Ardent lips, and a wicked heart, are [as] an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
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.
Silver of dross spread over potsherd, `Are' burning lips and an evil heart.