Profanity

but now put off, even ye, the whole--anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking--out of your mouth.

`And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

`Thou dost not take up the name of Jehovah thy God for a vain thing, for Jehovah acquitteth not him who taketh up His name for a vain thing.

also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, --the things not fit--but rather thanksgiving; — read the full passage →

out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,

Death and life <FI>are<Fi> in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.

not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.'

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;

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;

from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

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

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

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

by these three were the third of men killed, from the fire, and from the smoke, and from the brimstone, that is proceeding out of their mouth,

A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.

The fool--in a day is his anger known, And the prudent is covering shame.

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

`I have caused to testify against you to-day the heavens and the earth; life and death I have set before thee, the blessing and the reviling; and thou hast fixed on life, so that thou dost live, thou and thy seed,

every one who is transgressing, and is not remaining in the teaching of the Christ, hath not God; he who is remaining in the teaching of the Christ, this one hath both the Father and the Son; — read the full passage →

`And to the messenger of the assembly of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the witness--the faithful and true--the chief of the creation of God; — read the full passage →

this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on,

and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold;

as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before--an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind,

`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.

Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of your all becoming dross, Therefore, lo, I am gathering you unto the midst of Jerusalem,

Also to all the words that they speak give not thy heart, that thou hear not thy servant reviling thee. — read the full passage →

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth.

and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, <FI>it is<Fi> an unruly evil, full of deadly poison, — read the full passage →

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death--that is, the devil--

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times,

your word always in grace--with salt being seasoned--to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

God <FI>is<Fi> a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying: — read the full passage →

because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,

we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.

Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

And having called near the multitude, he said to them, `Hear and understand: — read the full passage →

In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips <FI>is<Fi> wise.

Turn aside from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee,

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one <FI>is<Fi> a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

and as the days of Noah--so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man;

`And in the days of these kings raise up doth the God of the heavens a kingdom that is not destroyed--to the age, and its kingdom to another people is not left: it beateth small and endeth all these kingdoms, and it standeth to the age.

The sin of their mouth <FI>is<Fi> a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.

To the Overseer. --By David. A fool hath said in his heart, `God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land.

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature;

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

And he said unto them, `O inconsiderate and slow in heart, to believe on all that the prophets spake!

and to all the nations it behoveth first that the good news be proclaimed.

teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days--till the full end of the age.'

Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers;

and they did not know till the flood came and took all away; so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man.

and said, `Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens;

for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

And this is the plague with which Jehovah Doth plague all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem, He hath consumed away its flesh, And it is standing on its feet, And its eyes are consumed in their holes, And its tongue is consumed in their mouth.

Purify themselves, yea, make themselves white, yea, refined are many: and the wicked have done wickedly, and none of the wicked understand, and those acting wisely do understand;

Therefore, hear a word of Jehovah, ye men of scorning, Ruling this people that <FI>is<Fi> in Jerusalem.

And thou, O Daniel, hide the things, and seal the book till the time of the end, many do go to and fro, and knowledge is multiplied.'