The Mouth

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.

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

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

Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! — read the full passage →

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.

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

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

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth. — read the full passage →

Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people. — read the full passage →

And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. — read the full passage →

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. — read the full passage →

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool. — read the full passage →

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.