- When you pray do not go on babbling endlessly as the pagans do, for they believe that they are more likely to be heard because of their many words.
- Pleasing words are like a honeycomb,
sweet to the soul and affording health to the body. - Give thanks to the Lord, invoke his name;
proclaim his deeds among the peoples. - So shall my word be
that issues forth from my mouth.
It will not return to me unfulfilled,
but it will accomplish my purpose
and achieve what I sent it forth to do. - A fool takes no pleasure in understanding
but only delights in expressing his own opinions. - Deliver me, O Lord, from lying lips
and from deceitful tongues. - With his mouth the godless man seeks to ruin his neighbor,
but knowledge enables the righteous to be delivered. - Let the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart
find favor in your sight,
O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer. - The lips of a fool cause strife,
and his mouth provokes a flogging. - Diligent labor always yields profit,
but idle conversation only leads to poverty. - If in speaking I use human tongues
and angelic as well,
but do not have love,
I am nothing more than a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. - Anxiety in the human heart weighs it down,
but a kind word makes it glad. - The lips of the righteous utter words of kindness,
but the mouth of the wicked knows only how to pervert. - Then keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from telling lies. - And whatever you do in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
- Turn away from the mouth that deceives
and keep your distance from lips that mislead. - It is honorable to avoid strife,
but every fool is quarrelsome. - Take no part in the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather seek to expose them.
For it is shameful even to speak of what deeds people do in secret. - The tongue of the just man is like pure silver;
the heart of the wicked is without worth. - A word is not even on my tongue
and you, O Lord, are completely aware of it. - As long as I remained silent,
my body wasted away
as the result of my groaning throughout the day. - Lying lips conceal hatred,
and anyone who slanders another is a fool. - If anyone thinks that he is religious but does not restrain his tongue, he is deceiving himself, and his religion is worthless.
- Speak out and pronounce righteous judgments;
defend the rights of the wretched and the poor. - For one believes in the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved.
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Bible verse of the day
He gives a home to those who are forsakenand leads out prisoners amid chants of exultation,
while rebels are forced to live in an arid land.