Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.
Through him then let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which make confession to his name.
Be not manyof youteachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment. — read the full passage →
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →
Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
For, He that would love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile:
Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings, — read the full passage →
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.
But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →
But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.
lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,
and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they that are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.
Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him: — read the full passage →
wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved for ever.
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment.
speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;
in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,—in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
And in none other is there salvation: for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we must be saved.
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.
My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: ASV.