Topic
The Mouth
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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.
out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips.
Not that which entereth into the mouth defileth the man; but that which proceedeth out of the mouth, this defileth the man.
Then Jehovah put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth:
but the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! — read the full passage →
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.
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall hear, these shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his 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 will he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and will he not make it good?
with all prayer and supplication praying at all seasons in the Spirit, and watching thereunto in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,
The tongue of the righteous isaschoice 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 from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you.
I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God.
And I have put my words in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the shadow of my 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 the heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and he that sat thereon called Faithful and True; and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. — read the full passage →
Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness:
Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual words.
how he entered into the house of God, and ate the showbread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them that were with him, but only for the priests?
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.
Surely the Lord Jehovah will do nothing, except he reveal his secret unto his servants the prophets.
For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:
And Jehovah 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 heavens and the earth.
And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment;
I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.
And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil.
He that hideth hatred is of lying lips; And he that uttereth a slander is a fool. — read the full passage →
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
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