Topic
Talking
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Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.
In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression; But he that refraineth his lips doeth wisely.
But let your speech be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: and whatsoever is more than these is of the evil one.
He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his life; Buthe that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; But he that harpeth on a matter separateth chief 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.
And 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 rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.
But the things which proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and they defile the man.
But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
He that despiseth his neighbor is void of wisdom; But a man of understanding holdeth his peace. — read the full passage →
For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. — read the full passage →
Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips.
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 quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Ye offspring 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 body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.
But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together.
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →
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