Lips

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

through him, then, we may offer up a sacrifice of praise always to God, that is, the fruit of lips, giving thanks to His name;

Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive, — read the full passage →

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

for `he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips--not to speak guile;

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices, — read the full passage →

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

if we may say--`we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.

and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but--those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain <FI>is<Fi> the religion;

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

A sepulchre opened <FI>is<Fi> their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps <FI>is<Fi> under their lips.

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →

wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.

he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;

But he answering said, `It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth--the good news of your salvation--in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,

for all the law in one word is fulfilled--in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!