Free Speech

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. — read the full passage →

Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee: — read the full passage →

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, — read the full passage →

And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. — read the full passage →

Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake. — read the full passage →

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. — read the full passage →

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.

When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?

I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; — read the full passage →

For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him. — read the full passage →

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. — read the full passage →

That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; — read the full passage →

Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. — read the full passage →

For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: — read the full passage →

Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. — read the full passage →

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man’s hands shall be rendered unto him. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. — read the full passage →

And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died. — read the full passage →

And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. — read the full passage →

Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the Lord, that he might perform his saying, which the Lord spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat. — read the full passage →

Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him. — read the full passage →

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. — read the full passage →

But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. — read the full passage →

He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed. — read the full passage →

And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. — read the full passage →

We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. — read the full passage →

How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. — read the full passage →

Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: — read the full passage →

Hath not my hand made all these things? — read the full passage →

Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, — read the full passage →

And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. — read the full passage →

Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest. — read the full passage →

And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee. — read the full passage →

Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? — read the full passage →

Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. — read the full passage →

The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. — read the full passage →

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. — read the full passage →

He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue. — read the full passage →

Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another: — read the full passage →

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. — read the full passage →

Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes. — read the full passage →

A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. — read the full passage →

The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law. — read the full passage →

I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. — read the full passage →

Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me. — read the full passage →

For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this? — read the full passage →

If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him. — read the full passage →

Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; — read the full passage →

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, — read the full passage →

They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. — read the full passage →

A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both. — read the full passage →

It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. — read the full passage →

Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake. — read the full passage →

Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. — read the full passage →

But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. — read the full passage →

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. — read the full passage →

For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: — read the full passage →

Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. — read the full passage →

Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god. — read the full passage →

And when he was come unto us, he took Paul’s girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles. — read the full passage →

After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; — read the full passage →

Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. — read the full passage →

Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine. — read the full passage →

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; — read the full passage →

Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. — read the full passage →

And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me. — read the full passage →

Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. — read the full passage →

Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings. — read the full passage →

For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. — read the full passage →

O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. — read the full passage →

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. — read the full passage →

He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated. — read the full passage →

If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, now may Israel say; — read the full passage →

Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. — read the full passage →

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard. — read the full passage →

The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall. — read the full passage →

Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? — read the full passage →

Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. — read the full passage →

I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. — read the full passage →