The Mouth

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.

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

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

That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

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

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest! — 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 is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

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

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.

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, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth. — read the full passage →

You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

I have put my words in your mouth, and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’” — read the full passage →

I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war. — read the full passage →

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

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

how he entered into God’s house, and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

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

An oracle about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool. — read the full passage →

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.