Talking

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.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

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 →

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

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.

One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace. — read the full passage →

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 →

Set a watch, Yahweh, 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 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.

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