Free Speech

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate. — read the full passage →

Also don’t take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you; — read the full passage →

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient, — read the full passage →

I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him. — read the full passage →

They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

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

Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake. — read the full passage →

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

“I have yet many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now. — read the full passage →

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

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

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

not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come.

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and determined to kill them.

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

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

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom: — read the full passage →

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him. — read the full passage →

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him. — read the full passage →

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; — read the full passage →

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God. — read the full passage →

For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Don’t you judge those who are within?

Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

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

He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

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

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

Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn’t turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul. — read the full passage →

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded to him. — read the full passage →

When Yahweh was about to take Elijah up by a whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. — read the full passage →

The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. The base fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones. — read the full passage →

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people answered him not a word. — read the full passage →

So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about of Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. — read the full passage →

“Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him. — read the full passage →

keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.” — read the full passage →

But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries. — read the full passage →

“He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed. — read the full passage →

I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said to me, “Take it, and eat it up. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.” — read the full passage →

Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain, — read the full passage →

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up. — read the full passage →

Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God; — read the full passage →

Didn’t my hand make all these things?’ — read the full passage →

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures. — read the full passage →

They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. — read the full passage →

“Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; For your people are like those who bring charges against a priest. — read the full passage →

He said to me, Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you. — read the full passage →

Isn’t my word like fire? says Yahweh; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? — read the full passage →

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; don’t fear the reproach of men, neither be dismayed at their insults. — read the full passage →

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 wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. — read the full passage →

Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed. — read the full passage →

One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue. — read the full passage →

Debate your case with your neighbor, and don’t betray the confidence of another; — read the full passage →

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small. — read the full passage →

Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes. — read the full passage →

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion. — read the full passage →

The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law. — read the full passage →

I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy. — read the full passage →

Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me. — read the full passage →

For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” — read the full passage →

If he says, ‘It is well;’ your servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him. — read the full passage →

then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it right: then they seized him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.

and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded; — read the full passage →

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, — read the full passage →

They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace. — read the full passage →

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

“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts. — read the full passage →

whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake. — read the full passage →

although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. — read the full passage →

But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you. — read the full passage →

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.” — read the full passage →

For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it. — read the full passage →

I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me. — read the full passage →

But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god. — read the full passage →

Coming to us, and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit: ‘So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and will 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, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly. — read the full passage →

Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.” — read the full passage →

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. — read the full passage →

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God. — read the full passage →

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.” — read the full passage →

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies. — read the full passage →

Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s harvest. — read the full passage →

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

Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth. — read the full passage →

Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil. — read the full passage →

He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated. — read the full passage →

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

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. — read the full passage →

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard. — read the full passage →

The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall. — read the full passage →

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.

When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?” — read the full passage →

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

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