- Therefore, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be shouted from the housetops.
- Conduct yourselves wisely toward outsiders, making the most of your opportunity. Let your speech always be gracious and seasoned with wisdom, so that you will know how to respond properly to all.
- If you confess with your lips, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
- Plans miscarry when counsel is lacking,
but they succeed when there are many counselors. - In the same way, even the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs that cannot be put into 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. - Let the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart
find favor in your sight,
O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer. - 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. - 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. - Anxiety in the human heart weighs it down,
but a kind word makes it glad. - 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.
- The lips of the righteous utter words of kindness,
but the mouth of the wicked knows only how to pervert. - If anyone thinks that he is religious but does not restrain his tongue, he is deceiving himself, and his religion is worthless.
- When they arrest you and bring you to trial, do not be concerned beforehand about what you are to say. Simply say whatever is given to you when that time comes, for it will not be you who speak but the Holy Spirit.
- It is honorable to avoid strife,
but every fool is quarrelsome. - Turn away from the mouth that deceives
and keep your distance from lips that mislead. - The heavens were made by the word of the Lord,
and all their host by the breath of his mouth. - Lying lips conceal hatred,
and anyone who slanders another is a fool. - For:
“If anyone wishes to love life
and to experience good days,
he must restrain his tongue from evil
and his lips from deceitful speech.
He must turn away from evil and do good,
seek peace and pursue it.” - Speak out and pronounce righteous judgments;
defend the rights of the wretched and the poor.
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