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Colossians 4:6
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
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1 Thessalonians 5 11
Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.
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Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious, But the lips of a fool shall swallow him up;
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Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge, But the heart of the fool does not do so.
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Matthew 12:34-37
Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
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Colossians 3:8-9
But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds,
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Proverbs 25:11-12
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold In settings of silver.Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold Is a wise rebuker to an obedient ear.
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James 3:2-8
For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.Indeed, we put bits in horses’ mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body.Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires.Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles!And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
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Psalms 37:30-31
The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, And his tongue talks of justice.The law of his God is in his heart; None of his steps shall slide.
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Proverbs 12:13
The wicked is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, But the righteous will come through trouble.
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Proverbs 15:2-4
The tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly, But the mouth of fools pours forth foolishness.The eyes of the Lord are in every place, Keeping watch on the evil and the good.A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, But perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
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Ephesians 5:3-4
But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints;neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
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Matthew 5:16
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
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Proverbs 10:31-32
The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, But the perverse tongue will be cut out.The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, But the mouth of the wicked what is perverse.
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Colossians 3:16-17
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
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Proverbs 16:21
The wise in heart will be called prudent, And sweetness of the lips increases learning.
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Luke 4:22
So all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth. And they said,“ Is this not Joseph’s son?”
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Isaiah 50:4
“ The Lord GOD has given Me The tongue of the learned, That I should know how to speak A word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear To hear as the learned.
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Proverbs 15:23
A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, And a word spoken in due season, how good it is!
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Psalms 52:2
Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
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1 Peter 2 12
having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.
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1 Corinthians 15 32-1 Corinthians 15 33
If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead do not rise,“ Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”Do not be deceived:“ Evil company corrupts good habits.”
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Romans 3:13-14
“ Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit”;“ The poison of asps is under their lips”;“ Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
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Psalms 5:9
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is destruction; Their throat is an open tomb; They flatter with their tongue.
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Psalms 71:17-18
O God, You have taught me from my youth; And to this day I declare Your wondrous works.Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to this generation, Your power to everyone who is to come.
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Malachi 3:16-18
Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, And the Lord listened and heard them; So a book of remembrance was written before Him For those who fear the Lord And who meditate on His name.“ They shall be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts,“ On the day that I make them My jewels. And I will spare them As a man spares his own son who serves him.”Then you shall again discern Between the righteous and the wicked, Between one who serves God And one who does not serve Him.
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Psalms 73:7-9
Their eyes bulge with abundance; They have more than heart could wish.They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression; They speak loftily.They set their mouth against the heavens, And their tongue walks through the earth.
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Ephesians 4:16
from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
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Deuteronomy 6:6-9
“ And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
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1 Peter 3 1
Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives,
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Psalms 71:24
My tongue also shall talk of Your righteousness all the day long; For they are confounded, For they are brought to shame Who seek my hurt.
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Psalms 45:2
You are fairer than the sons of men; Grace is poured upon Your lips; Therefore God has blessed You forever.
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Jude 1:13-16
raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying,“ Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints,to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage.
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Ephesians 4:12
for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
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1 Corinthians 14 19
yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
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Psalms 78:4-5
We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children;
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Revelation 13:5-6
And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months.Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven.
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2 Peter 2 18
For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error.