The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this Man!"

There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword, But the tongue of the wise [promotes] health.

Do not answer a fool according to his folly, Lest you also be like him.

Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

"[Is] not My word like a fire?" says the LORD, "And like a hammer [that] breaks the rock in pieces?

But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an uninformed person comes in, he is convinced by all, he is convicted by all.

And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed; and so, falling down on [his] face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you.

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

For the word of God [is] living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things [are] naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we [must give] account.

He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance [was] like the sun shining in its strength.

'Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth.

Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

"Whoever is deserving of death shall be put to death on the testimony of two or three witnesses; he shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

But to the wicked God says: "What [right] have you to declare My statutes, Or take My covenant in your mouth,

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, And have been a partaker with adulterers.

You sit [and] speak against your brother; You slander your own mother's son.

"Judge not, that you be not judged.

"And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?

"Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead [men's] bones and all uncleanness.

Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?

You who make your boast in the law, do you dishonor God through breaking the law?

For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.