Speaking (2/3)

And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen… Matthew 6:7

And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.
Matthew 6:7 prayer thoughts
Pleasant words are like a honeycomb,
Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.
Proverbs 16:24 gentleness soul food

Oh, give thanks to the Lord!
Call upon His name;
Make known His deeds among the peoples!
Psalm 105:1 evangelism worship praise
So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
Isaiah 55:11 Word of God reliability fruitfulness
A fool has no delight in understanding,
But in expressing his own heart.
Proverbs 18:2 wisdom selfishness
Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips
And from a deceitful tongue.
Psalm 120:2 redeemer soul lying
The hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor,
But through knowledge the righteous will be delivered.
Proverbs 11:9 righteousness wisdom gossip
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.
Psalm 19:14 prayer heart
A fool’s lips enter into contention,
And his mouth calls for blows.
Proverbs 18:6 wisdom
In all labor there is profit,
But idle chatter leads only to poverty.
Proverbs 14:23 reliability encouragement poverty
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:1 love angels
Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression,
But a good word makes it glad.
Proverbs 12:25 worrying heart
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
But the mouth of the wicked what is perverse.
Proverbs 10:32 truth righteousness lying
Keep your tongue from evil,
And your lips from speaking deceit.
Psalm 34:13 evil truth lying
And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
Colossians 3:17 gratitude following work
Put away from you a deceitful mouth,
And put perverse lips far from you.
Proverbs 4:24 truth lying
It is honorable for a man to stop striving,
Since any fool can start a quarrel.
Proverbs 20:3 peace anger
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
Ephesians 5:11-12 sin idols fruitfulness
For there is not a word on my tongue,
But behold, O Lord, You know it altogether.
Psalm 139:4 almighty understanding
The tongue of the righteous is choice silver;
The heart of the wicked is worth little.
Proverbs 10:20 valuable righteousness
When I kept silent, my bones grew old
Through my groaning all the day long.
Psalm 32:3 sin confession sickness
Whoever hides hatred has lying lips,
And whoever spreads slander is a fool.
Proverbs 10:18 gossip lying
If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless.
James 1:26
Open your mouth, judge righteously,
And plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Proverbs 31:9 righteousness giving widows
For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 10:10 faith salvation acknowledging

So Jesus answered and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ it will be done.”