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Colossians 4:6
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person.
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1 Thessalonians 5 11
Therefore encourage one another and build each other up as you are already doing.
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Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words from the mouth of a wise person are gracious, but the lips of a fool consume him.
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Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise broadcast knowledge, but not so the heart of fools.
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Matthew 12:34-37
Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.A good person produces good things from his storeroom of good, and an evil person produces evil things from his storeroom of evil.I tell you that on the day of judgment people will have to account for every careless word they speak.For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
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Colossians 3:8-9
But now, put away all the following: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices
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Proverbs 25:11-12
A word spoken at the right time is like gold apples in silver settings.A wise correction to a receptive ear is like a gold ring or an ornament of gold.
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James 3:2-8
For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is mature, able also to control the whole body.Now if we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we direct their whole bodies.And consider ships: Though very large and driven by fierce winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.So too, though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts great things. Consider how a small fire sets ablaze a large forest.And the tongue is a fire. The tongue, a world of unrighteousness, is placed among our members. It stains the whole body, sets the course of life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.Every kind of animal, bird, reptile, and fish is tamed and has been tamed by humankind,but no one can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
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Psalms 37:30-31
The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom; his tongue speaks what is just.The instruction of his God is in his heart; his steps do not falter.
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Proverbs 12:13
By rebellious speech an evil person is trapped, but a righteous person escapes from trouble.
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Proverbs 15:2-4
The tongue of the wise makes knowledge attractive, but the mouth of fools blurts out foolishness.The eyes of the LORD are everywhere, observing the wicked and the good.The tongue that heals is a tree of life, but a devious tongue breaks the spirit.
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Ephesians 5:3-4
But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.Obscene and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks.
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Matthew 5:16
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
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Proverbs 10:31-32
The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but a perverse tongue will be cut out.The lips of the righteous know what is appropriate, but the mouth of the wicked, only what is perverse.
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Colossians 3:16-17
Let the word of Christ dwell richly among you, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
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Proverbs 16:21
Anyone with a wise heart is called discerning, and pleasant speech increases learning.
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Luke 4:22
They were all speaking well of him and were amazed by the gracious words that came from his mouth; yet they said,“ Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”
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Isaiah 50:4
The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are instructed to know how to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens me each morning; he awakens my ear to listen like those being instructed.
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Proverbs 15:23
A person takes joy in giving an answer; and a timely word— how good that is!
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Psalms 52:2
Like a sharpened razor, your tongue devises destruction, working treachery.
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1 Peter 2 12
Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits.
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1 Corinthians 15 32-1 Corinthians 15 33
If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus as a mere man, what good did that do me? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.Do not be deceived:“ Bad company corrupts good morals.”
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Romans 3:13-14
Their throat is an open grave; they deceive with their tongues. Vipers’ venom is under their lips.Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
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Psalms 5:9
For there is nothing reliable in what they say; destruction is within them; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongues.
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Psalms 71:17-18
God, you have taught me from my youth, and I still proclaim your wondrous works.Even while I am old and gray, God, do not abandon me, while I proclaim your power to another generation, your strength to all who are to come.
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Malachi 3:16-18
At that time those who feared the LORD spoke to one another. The LORD took notice and listened. So a book of remembrance was written before him for those who feared the LORD and had high regard for his name.“ They will be mine,” says the LORD of Armies,“ my own possession on the day I am preparing. I will have compassion on them as a man has compassion on his son who serves him.So you will again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.
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Psalms 73:7-9
Their eyes bulge out from fatness; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.They mock, and they speak maliciously; they arrogantly threaten oppression.They set their mouths against heaven, and their tongues strut across the earth.
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Ephesians 4:16
From him the whole body, fitted and knit together by every supporting ligament, promotes the growth of the body for building itself up in love by the proper working of each individual part.
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Deuteronomy 6:6-9
These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol on your forehead.Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your city gates.
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1 Peter 3 1
In the same way, wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the word, they may be won over without a word by the way their wives live
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Psalms 71:24
Therefore, my tongue will proclaim your righteousness all day long, for those who intend to harm me will be disgraced and confounded.
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Psalms 45:2
You are the most handsome of men; grace flows from your lips. Therefore God has blessed you forever.
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Jude 1:13-16
They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.It was about these that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied:“ Look! The Lord comes with tens of thousands of his holy onesto execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly concerning all the ungodly acts that they have done in an ungodly way, and concerning all the harsh things ungodly sinners have said against him.”These people are discontented grumblers, living according to their desires; their mouths utter arrogant words, flattering people for their own advantage.
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Ephesians 4:12
to equip the saints for the work of ministry, to build up the body of Christ,
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1 Corinthians 14 19
yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, in order to teach others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
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Psalms 78:4-5
We will not hide them from their children, but will tell a future generation the praiseworthy acts of the LORD, his might, and the wondrous works he has performed.He established a testimony in Jacob and set up a law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach to their children
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Revelation 13:5-6
The beast was given a mouth to utter boasts and blasphemies. It was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months.It began to speak blasphemies against God: to blaspheme his name and his dwelling— those who dwell in heaven.
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2 Peter 2 18
For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.