- When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.
- Pleasant words are like a honeycomb,
sweetness to the soul and health to the body. - O give thanks to the Lord, call on his name,
make known his deeds among the peoples. - So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and succeed in the thing for which I sent it. - Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to you,
O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. - A fool takes no pleasure in understanding,
but only in expressing personal opinion. - Deliver me, O Lord,
from lying lips,
from a deceitful tongue. - With their mouths the godless would destroy their neighbors,
but by knowledge the righteous are delivered. - A fool's lips bring strife,
and a fool's mouth invites a flogging. - Anxiety weighs down the human heart,
but a good word cheers it up. - In all toil there is profit,
but mere talk leads only to poverty. - If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
- If any think they are religious, and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless.
- Keep your tongue from evil,
and your lips from speaking deceit. - 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.
- Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what such people do secretly.
- While I kept silence, my body wasted away
through my groaning all day long. - The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
but the mouth of the wicked what is perverse. - It is honorable to refrain from strife,
but every fool is quick to quarrel. - Let your word be ‘Yes, Yes’ or ‘No, No’; anything more than this comes from the evil one.
- Put away from you crooked speech,
and put devious talk far from you. - When they bring you to trial and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say; but say whatever is given you at that time, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
- By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
and all their host by the breath of his mouth. - Speak out, judge righteously,
defend the rights of the poor and needy. - For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved.
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