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.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

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

Their eyes bulge with fatness; they have more than the heart could imagine.

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongues walk through the earth.

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.

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.

If like other men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me, if the dead are not raised? Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!

Do not be led astray: Evil company corrupts good character.

But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.

Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his practices,

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

For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a flawless man, able also to bridle the whole body.

Behold also the ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the helmsman desires.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. Thus the tongue is set among our members, defiling the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by Gehenna.

But no man is able to tame the tongue. It is an uncontrollable evil, full of deadly poison.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through wantonness, the ones who have actually escaped from those living in error.

raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

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.

And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months.

And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in Heaven.

And these Words which I am commanding you today shall be in your heart.

You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

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.

You are the fairest of the sons of men; grace is poured into Your lips; therefore God has blessed You forever.

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

And now when I am old and grayheaded, O God, do not leave me, until I have declared Your strength to this generation, and Your power to everyone who is to come.

My tongue also shall meditate on Your righteousness all day long; for those who seek evil upon me are abashed; they are brought to shame.

We will not hide them from their children, recounting to the following generation the praises of Jehovah, and His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.

For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a Law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should declare them to their children;

The mouth of the just bears fruit with wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut off.

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, perversities.

The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips, but the just shall come out of trouble.

The tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it is a break in the spirit.

The wise in heart shall be called prudent, and the sweetness of the lips increases learning.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

As a ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an attentive ear.

The Lord Jehovah has given Me the tongue of the learned, to know how to speak a word in season to the weary. He wakens morning by morning, He wakens the ear to hear as the learned.

Then those who feared Jehovah spoke together, each man to his neighbor. And Jehovah gave attention and heard. And a Book of Remembrance was written before Him for those who feared Jehovah, and for those who thought on His name.

Then you shall again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who does not serve Him.

And all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words going forth out of His mouth. And they said, Is this not Joseph's son?

yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my mind, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

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.

And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God, even the Father, through Him.

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

Therefore encourage each other and build up one another, just as you also are doing.

for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ,

from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every individual does its part, causes growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

Let your light so shine before men, so that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in Heaven.

having your behavior honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Wives, likewise, be subject to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the Word, they, without a word, may be won by the behavior of their wives,