Unkind Words

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;

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

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

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

The heart of the righteous meditateth to answer, And the mouth of the wicked uttereth evil things.

Death and life <FI>are<Fi> in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

The good man out of the good treasure of the heart doth put forth the good things, and the evil man out of the evil treasure doth put forth evil things.

and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, <FI>it is<Fi> an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.'

Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.

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

A healed tongue <FI>is<Fi> a tree of life, And perverseness in it--a breach in the spirit.

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

`The good man out of the good treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which <FI>is<Fi> good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which <FI>is<Fi> evil; for out of the abounding of the heart doth his mouth speak.

`Happy the clean in heart--because they shall see God.

The beginning of contention <FI>is<Fi> a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.

`Thou dost not go slandering among thy people; thou dost not stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God;

and the tongue <FI>is<Fi> a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

With the mouth a hypocrite corrupteth his friend, And by knowledge the righteous are drawn out.

Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive, — read the full passage →

All things do without murmurings and reasonings,

Be ye not as a horse--as a mule, Without understanding, With bridle and bit, its ornaments, to curb, Not to come near unto thee.

`Thou dost not desire the house of thy neighbour, thou dost not desire the wife of thy neighbour, or his man-servant, or his handmaid, or his ox, or his ass, or anything which <FI>is<Fi> thy neighbour's.'

and without <FI>are<Fi> the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.

and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but--those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.

What <FI>is<Fi> the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him? — read the full passage →

And you--once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile,

And I heard a great voice saying in the heaven, `Now did come the salvation, and the power, and the reign, of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because cast down was the accuser of our brethren, who is accusing them before our God day and night;

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

And the all things <FI>are<Fi> of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and did give to us the ministration of the reconciliation,

for there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they shall give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, also the chosen.

And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Look not unto his appearance, and unto the height of his stature, for I have rejected him; for <FI>it is<Fi> not as man seeth--for man looketh at the eyes, and Jehovah looketh at the heart.'