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Proverbs 4:23
Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.
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Ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.
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Matthew 12:34-37
Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
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John 7:38
He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”
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Psalms 37:30-31
The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, And his tongue talks of justice.The law of his God is in his heart; None of his steps shall slide.
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Psalms 59:12
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for the cursing and lying which they speak.
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Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
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Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword, But the tongue of the wise promotes health.
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James 3:5-8
Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles!And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
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Psalms 52:2-4
Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.You love evil more than good, Lying rather than speaking righteousness. SelahYou love all devouring words, You deceitful tongue.
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Proverbs 10:20-21
The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; The heart of the wicked is worth little.The lips of the righteous feed many, But fools die for lack of wisdom.
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Romans 3:13-14
“ Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit”;“ The poison of asps is under their lips”;“ Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
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Colossians 4:6
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
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Psalms 12:2-4
They speak idly everyone with his neighbor; With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, And the tongue that speaks proud things,Who have said,“ With our tongue we will prevail; Our lips are our own; Who is Lord over us?”
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Psalms 40:8-10
I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law is within my heart.”I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness In the great assembly; Indeed, I do not restrain my lips, O Lord, You Yourself know.I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth From the great assembly.
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Psalms 41:6-7
And if he comes to see me, he speaks lies; His heart gathers iniquity to itself; When he goes out, he tells it.All who hate me whisper together against me; Against me they devise my hurt.
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Jeremiah 9:2-5
Oh, that I had in the wilderness A lodging place for travelers; That I might leave my people, And go from them! For they are all adulterers, An assembly of treacherous men.“ And like their bow they have bent their tongues for lies. They are not valiant for the truth on the earth. For they proceed from evil to evil, And they do not know Me,” says the Lord.“ Everyone take heed to his neighbor, And do not trust any brother; For every brother will utterly supplant, And every neighbor will walk with slanderers.Everyone will deceive his neighbor, And will not speak the truth; They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves to commit iniquity.
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Ephesians 5:3-4
But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints;neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
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Hebrews 8:10
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
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Acts 8:19-23
saying,“ Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”But Peter said to him,“ Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money!You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight of God.Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.”
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Ephesians 5:19
speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,
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Psalms 64:3-8
Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And bend their bows to shoot their arrows— bitter words,That they may shoot in secret at the blameless; Suddenly they shoot at him and do not fear.They encourage themselves in an evil matter; They talk of laying snares secretly; They say,“ Who will see them?”They devise iniquities:“ We have perfected a shrewd scheme.” Both the inward thought and the heart of man are deep.But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; Suddenly they shall be wounded.So He will make them stumble over their own tongue; All who see them shall flee away.
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Psalms 71:15-18
My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness And Your salvation all the day, For I do not know their limits.I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD; I will make mention of Your righteousness, of Yours only.O God, You have taught me from my youth; And to this day I declare Your wondrous works.Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to this generation, Your power to everyone who is to come.
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Psalms 140:5
The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set traps for me. Selah
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Proverbs 15:23
A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, And a word spoken in due season, how good it is!
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Psalms 59:7
Indeed, they belch with their mouth; Swords are in their lips; For they say,“ Who hears?”
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Jude 1:15
to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”
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Ephesians 3:8
To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
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Proverbs 22:17-18
Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, And apply your heart to my knowledge;For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; Let them all be fixed upon your lips,
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2 Corinthians 4 6-2 Corinthians 4 7
For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.
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Acts 5:3
But Peter said,“ Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself?