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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.

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

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

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 →

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

But say the things which fit sound doctrine, — read the full passage →

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

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

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? — read the full passage →

that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ;

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.

Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest. — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

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

The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. — read the full passage →

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him. — read the full passage →

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life — read the full passage →

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.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

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.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment, — read the full passage →

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;

in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, — read the full passage →

that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — read the full passage →

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, — read the full passage →

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. — read the full passage →

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →

by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary. — read the full passage →

Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. — read the full passage →

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; — read the full passage →

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.