Communicating

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

Rejoice always. — read the full passage →

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

“When the Counselorhas come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied. — read the full passage →

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

“‘A man or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones. Their blood shall be upon them.’”

“‘Don’t turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don’t seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you; — read the full passage →

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. — read the full passage →

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart. — read the full passage →

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.

And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons. — read the full passage →

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. — read the full passage →

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →