Talking

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;

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

but let your word be, Yes, Yes, No, No, and that which is more than these is of the evil.

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

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

To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. --A Psalm of David. I have said, `I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked <FI>is<Fi> before me.'

`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; — read the full passage →

A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.

but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man;

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

Whoso is despising his neighbour lacketh heart, And a man of understanding keepeth silence. — read the full passage →

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; — read the full passage →

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

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

`Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things--being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

and the Pharisees, having heard that he did silence the Sadducees, were gathered together unto him;

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