Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.

Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, this should not be!

A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.”

Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.

Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.

but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze. The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.

God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked has little worth. The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of judgment.

If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.

You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.

Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God.

I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’” Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs—the cup that makes men stagger.

And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for them to eat, but only for the priests.

Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war. He has eyes like blazing fire, and many royal crowns on His head. He has a name written on Him that only He Himself knows. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is The Word of God. The armies of heaven, dressed in fine linen, white and pure, follow Him on white horses. And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. . . .

Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.

He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.

This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite: The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies. The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet. He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts. The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence—the world and all its dwellers. . . .

And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as the true word of God—the word which is now at work in you who believe.