Talking

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. — read the full passage →

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace. — read the full passage →

For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. — read the full passage →

Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.

The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; — read the full passage →