The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of justice.

The Law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

I delight to do Your will, O My God, and Your Law is within My heart.

I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not hidden Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great assembly.

My mouth shall recount Your righteousness and Your salvation all the day; for I do not know their number.

O God, You have taught me from my youth; and to this day I have declared Your marvelous works.

The tongue of the just is as choice silver; the heart of the wicked is as little.

The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of heart.

There are those who speak like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, and a word in due season, how good it is!

Extend your ear and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge,

for it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be fixed upon your lips,

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.

He who believes into Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.

Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for the business of building up, that it may impart grace to the hearers.

But sexual perversion and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints;

neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.

speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

For it is God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not from us.

To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will give My Laws into their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

They speak vanity each one with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

that has said, We shall be strong with our tongue; our lips are our own; who is lord over us?

And when he comes to see me, he speaks vanity; his heart gathers iniquity to itself; he goes out and speaks of it.

All those who hate me whisper against me; they plot evil against me.

Your tongue devises destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.

Behold, they belch with their mouth; swords are in their lips; for they say, Who hears?

Let them be taken in their pride for the sin of their mouth and the word of their lips, along with the cursing and the lying which they speak.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword. They have bent their bows to shoot their arrows; even bitter words,

They encourage themselves in an evil plan; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?

But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly they shall be wounded.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have laid the bait for me. Selah

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for travelers, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Everyone beware of his neighbor, and do not trust any brother! For every brother will supplant and assail his neighbor, and will walk with slanderers.

But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the proceeds of the land for yourself?

saying, Give me this authority also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit.

You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not upright before God.

For I see that you are in bitter wickedness and bound by unrighteousness.

Their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;

whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold, how large a forest a little fire kindles.

For every kind of beast and bird, and of creeping thing and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.

to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

Offspring of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.