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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 exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
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Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.
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Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.
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Matthew 12:34-37
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.I tell you that every idle word that men 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 also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
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Proverbs 25:11-12
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.
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James 3:2-8
For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
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Psalms 37:30-31
The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.
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Proverbs 12:13
An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.
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Proverbs 15:2-4
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.
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Ephesians 5:3-4
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.
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Matthew 5:16
Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
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Proverbs 10:31-32
The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked 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 with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.Whatever you do, in word or in 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 shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.
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Luke 4:22
All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said,“ Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”
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Isaiah 50:4
The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
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Proverbs 15:23
Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!
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Psalms 52:2
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
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1 Peter 2 12
having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
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1 Corinthians 15 32-1 Corinthians 15 33
If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then“ let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”Don’t be deceived!“ Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
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Romans 3:13-14
“ Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.”“ The poison of vipers is under their lips.”“ Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
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Psalms 5:9
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
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Psalms 71:17-18
God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.Yes, even when I am old and gray- haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
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Malachi 3:16-18
Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies,“ my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
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Psalms 73:7-9
Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.
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Ephesians 4:16
from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
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Deuteronomy 6:6-9
These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.
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1 Peter 3 1
In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,
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Psalms 71:24
My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me.
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Psalms 45:2
You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.
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Jude 1:13-16
wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying,“ Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts— and their mouth speaks proud things— showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
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Ephesians 4:12
for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,
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1 Corinthians 14 19
However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.
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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 Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
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Revelation 13:5-6
A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty- two months was given to him.He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven.
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2 Peter 2 18
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;