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    "figure_id": "FOS_0239",
    "figure_name": "Mouth and Lips Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Mouth, lips, confession, praise, polluted lips, and deceitful mouth imagery",
    "alternate_names": "mouth imagery; lips imagery; confession imagery; polluted lips imagery",
    "page_slug": "mouth-and-lips-imagery",
    "reader_category": "Speech, confession, praise, and character / Mouth and lips imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Biblical imagery and motif forms",
    "simple_definition": "Mouth and lips imagery uses the mouth, lips, confession, praise, deceit, polluted lips, and fruit of lips to reveal worship, truthfulness, hypocrisy, repentance, and the moral condition of speech.",
    "technical_definition": "A speech-organ motif in which mouth and lips represent confession, praise, proclamation, deceit, hypocrisy, moral purity or impurity, and the outward expression of inward allegiance.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 27 draft-normalized bodily-life imagery review; distinguish from tongue imagery by focusing on confession, praise, lips, and verbal expression.",
    "canonical_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/figures-of-speech-in-the-bible/mouth-and-lips-imagery/",
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    "publication_status": "draft_normalized",
    "page_status": "draft_normalized"
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      "example_id": "EX27_0081",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0239",
      "figure_name": "Mouth and Lips Imagery",
      "page_slug": "mouth-and-lips-imagery",
      "reference": "Exod. 4:12",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I will be with thy mouth",
      "explanation": "The mouth becomes the instrument God promises to enable for obedient speech.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX27_0082",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0239",
      "figure_name": "Mouth and Lips Imagery",
      "page_slug": "mouth-and-lips-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 19:14",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the words of my mouth",
      "explanation": "Mouth language connects spoken words with inward meditation acceptable to God.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX27_0083",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0239",
      "figure_name": "Mouth and Lips Imagery",
      "page_slug": "mouth-and-lips-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 34:13",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile",
      "explanation": "Lips reveal the moral character of speech and must be guarded from deceit.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX27_0084",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0239",
      "figure_name": "Mouth and Lips Imagery",
      "page_slug": "mouth-and-lips-imagery",
      "reference": "Prov. 10:21",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the lips of the righteous feed many",
      "explanation": "Righteous lips are pictured as nourishing others with wise speech.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX27_0085",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0239",
      "figure_name": "Mouth and Lips Imagery",
      "page_slug": "mouth-and-lips-imagery",
      "reference": "Isa. 6:5-7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I am a man of unclean lips",
      "explanation": "Unclean lips represent guilt and the need for purifying grace before prophetic service.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
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      "example_id": "EX27_0086",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0239",
      "figure_name": "Mouth and Lips Imagery",
      "page_slug": "mouth-and-lips-imagery",
      "reference": "Isa. 29:13",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "this people draw near me with their mouth... but have removed their heart",
      "explanation": "Mouth and lip language exposes hypocritical worship detached from the heart.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX27_0087",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0239",
      "figure_name": "Mouth and Lips Imagery",
      "page_slug": "mouth-and-lips-imagery",
      "reference": "Matt. 15:8",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me",
      "explanation": "Jesus applies lip imagery to condemn outward religion without inward devotion.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX27_0088",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0239",
      "figure_name": "Mouth and Lips Imagery",
      "page_slug": "mouth-and-lips-imagery",
      "reference": "Rom. 10:9-10",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus",
      "explanation": "The mouth becomes the outward instrument of faith's confession.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
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      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0239",
      "figure_name": "Mouth and Lips Imagery",
      "page_slug": "mouth-and-lips-imagery",
      "reference": "Heb. 13:15",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the fruit of our lips",
      "explanation": "Lips produce praise as a sacrificial offering of thanksgiving to God.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
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      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
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    },
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      "example_id": "EX27_0090",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0239",
      "figure_name": "Mouth and Lips Imagery",
      "page_slug": "mouth-and-lips-imagery",
      "reference": "Rev. 14:5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "in their mouth was found no guile",
      "explanation": "A guileless mouth marks truthful allegiance and purity among the redeemed.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
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    }
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