Speaking Up

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And <FI>be<Fi> ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that <FI>is<Fi> in you, with meekness and fear; — read the full passage →

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!'

for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change.

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

And the Lord said through a vision in the night to Paul, `Be not afraid, but be speaking and thou mayest be not silent; — read the full passage →

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;

reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

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

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

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

A healed tongue <FI>is<Fi> a tree of life, And perverseness in it--a breach in the spirit.

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

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

Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change. — read the full passage →

Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.

Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive <FI>for<Fi> the widow.

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

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

Even a fool keeping silence is reckoned wise, He who is shutting his lips intelligent!

Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips--ruin to him!

Who riseth up for me with evil doers? Who stationeth himself for me with workers of iniquity?

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

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother;

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;

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

Doth any one suffer evil among you? let him pray; is any of good cheer? let him sing psalms;

And having called them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor to teach, in the name of Jesus, — read the full passage →

`The good man out of the good treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which <FI>is<Fi> good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which <FI>is<Fi> evil; for out of the abounding of the heart doth his mouth speak.

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

And it came to pass, in his coming nigh to Jericho, a certain blind man was sitting beside the way begging, — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, in Apollos' being in Corinth, Paul having gone through the upper parts, came to Ephesus, and having found certain disciples, — read the full passage →

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

not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;

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;

These <FI>are<Fi> the things that ye do: Speak ye truth each with his neighbour, Truth and peaceful judgment judge in your gates,

With the mouth a hypocrite corrupteth his friend, And by knowledge the righteous are drawn out.

In My saying to the wicked: Thou dost surely die; and thou hast not warned him, nor hast spoken to warn the wicked from his wicked way, so that he doth live; he--the wicked--in his iniquity dieth, and his blood from thy hand I require. — read the full passage →

Sayings of pleasantness <FI>are<Fi> a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.

let him know that he who did turn back a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

Let the sayings of my mouth, And the meditation of my heart, Be for a pleasing thing before Thee, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer!

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens. — read the full passage →

The righteous knoweth the plea of the poor, The wicked understandeth not knowledge.

Whoso is keeping his mouth and his tongue, Is keeping from adversities his soul.

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;

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;

`And--praying--ye may not use vain repetitions like the nations, for they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard,

And Jonathan speaketh good of David unto Saul his father, and saith unto him, `Let not the king sin against his servant, against David, because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works for thee <FI>are<Fi> very good;

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict, — read the full passage →

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And <FI>be<Fi> ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that <FI>is<Fi> in you, with meekness and fear;

And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy, — read the full passage →

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy, — read the full passage →

Words of the mouth of the wise <FI>are<Fi> gracious, And the lips of a fool swallow him up.

A time to rend, And a time to sew. A time to be silent, And a time to speak.

He drinketh, and forgetteth his poverty, And his misery he remembereth not again.

Whoso is answering a matter before he heareth, Folly it is to him and shame.

Whoso is despising his neighbour lacketh heart, And a man of understanding keepeth silence.

And Jonathan answereth Saul his father, and saith unto him, `Why is he put to death? what hath he done?'

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother; — read the full passage →

Filled is my mouth <FI>with<Fi> Thy praise, All the day <FI>with<Fi> Thy beauty.

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

so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!

Without counsel <FI>is<Fi> the making void of purposes, And in a multitude of counsellors it is established.

A busybody is revealing secret counsel, And the faithful of spirit is covering the matter.

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

because whatever in the darkness ye said, in the light shall be heard: and what to the ear ye spake in the inner-chambers, shall be proclaimed upon the house-tops.

Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!

Joy <FI>is<Fi> to a man in the answer of his mouth, And a word in its season--how good!

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.

Apples of gold in imagery of silver, <FI>Is<Fi> the word spoken at its fit times.

Give ye thanks to Jehovah--call ye in His name, Make known among the peoples His acts.

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;

And, in like manner also, the Spirit doth help our weaknesses; for, what we may pray for, as it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> , we have not known, but the Spirit himself doth make intercession for us with groanings unutterable,

for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.

Thou hast seen a man hasty in his words! More hope of a fool than of him.

`Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him,

At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, `Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?' — read the full passage →

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

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.

Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready, — read the full passage →

And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping <FI>it<Fi> !'

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

Without wood is fire going out, And without a tale-bearer, contention ceaseth,

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him: — read the full passage →

and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

who did testify the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, as many things also as he did see.

and having brought them, they set <FI>them<Fi> in the sanhedrim, and the chief priest questioned them, — read the full passage →

Jesus, therefore, said to the twelve, `Do ye also wish to go away?' — read the full passage →