Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.
I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. — read the full passage →
But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. — read the full passage →
For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together.
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