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Proverbs 21:23 ESV / 1,149 helpful votes

Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 929 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for
building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 655 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Proverbs 12:18 ESV / 605 helpful votes

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the
wise brings healing.

James 3:2-10 ESV / 565 helpful votes

For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he
says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into
the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as
well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong
winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot
directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things.
How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, a
world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the
whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.

Psalm 34:13 ESV / 517 helpful votes

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.

James 1:26 ESV / 481 helpful votes

If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his
heart, this person's religion is worthless.

Psalm 141:3 ESV / 394 helpful votes

Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!

Proverbs 17:28 ESV / 390 helpful votes

Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is
deemed intelligent.

1 Peter 3:10 ESV / 362 helpful votes

For Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue
from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;

Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 334 helpful votes

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat
its fruits.

Proverbs 15:4 ESV / 273 helpful votes

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

Matthew 12:33-37 ESV / 252 helpful votes

Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its
fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you
speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the
mouth speaks. The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good,
and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. I tell you, on the
day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,
for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be
condemned.

James 3:10 ESV / 245 helpful votes

From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things
ought not to be so.

Matthew 15:11 ESV / 209 helpful votes

It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out
of the mouth; this defiles a person.

Proverbs 10:19 ESV / 202 helpful votes

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his
lips is prudent.

James 3:1-18 ESV / 183 helpful votes

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we

who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many
ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man,
able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so
that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also:
though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a
very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a
small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze
by such a small fire!

Psalm 52:2 ESV / 180 helpful votes

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.

Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 158 helpful votes

Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates
close friends.

Titus 3:2 ESV / 157 helpful votes

To speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect
courtesy toward all people.

Proverbs 26:20 ESV / 152 helpful votes

For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling
ceases.

Psalm 37:30 ESV / 147 helpful votes

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

Psalm 39:1 ESV / 118 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, I will guard my
ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle,
so long as the wicked are in my presence.

James 4:1-17 ESV / 117 helpful votes

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that
your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you
murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not
have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask
wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not
know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever
wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you
suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, He yearns jealously over
the spirit that he has made to dwell in us?

Ecclesiastes 3:7 ESV / 114 helpful votes

A time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

James 3:11 ESV / 113 helpful votes

Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water?

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 111 helpful votes

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow
up into salvation if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you
come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen
and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual
house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God
through Jesus Christ.

Proverbs 10:18 ESV / 105 helpful votes

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a
fool.

1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 80 helpful votes

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.
But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the
righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for
the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know
him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says I know him but does not
keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever
keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know
that we are in him:

James 3:2 ESV / 79 helpful votes

For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he
says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.

Psalm 12:4 ESV / 73 helpful votes

Those who say, With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is
master over us?

Exodus 14:14 ESV / 73 helpful votes

The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.

James 3:1-12 ESV / 69 helpful votes

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we
who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many
ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man,
able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so
that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also:
though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a
very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a
small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze

by such a small fire!

Isaiah 54:17 ESV / 69 helpful votes

No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute
every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the
servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 68 helpful votes

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

James 1:19-20 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to
speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the
righteousness of God.

1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 58 helpful votes

And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the
testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing
among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in
weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message
were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and
of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the
power of God.

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 56 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your
bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual
worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God,
what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say
to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to
think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of
faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and
the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one
body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

Luke 8:13-16 ESV / 53 helpful votes

And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it
with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a while, and in time of
testing fall away. And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who
hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and
pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature. As for that in the good soil,
they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good
heart, and bear fruit with patience. No one after lighting a lamp covers it
with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand, so that those who
enter may see the light.

Matthew 23:1-39 ESV / 53 helpful votes

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, The scribes and the
Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so practice and observe whatever they tell you
but not what they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy
burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they
themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. They do all their
deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their
fringes long,

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 49 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and
Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: Children
have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox
knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know,
my people do not understand. Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity,
offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the
Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole
head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 47 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy
gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all
mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove
mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I
deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is
patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It
does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

Romans 7:1-25 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Or do you not know, brothersfor I am speaking to those who know the law
that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married
woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies
she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an
adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her
husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is
not an adulteress. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law
through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who
has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For
while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were
at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

James 1:1-27 ESV / 42 helpful votes

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in
the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials
of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces

steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be
perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him
ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given
him.

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 42 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and
instruction.

Psalm 64:1-10 ESV / 41 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my
complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy. Hide me from the
secret plots of the wicked, from the throng of evildoers, who whet their
tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows, shooting from ambush
at the blameless, shooting at him suddenly and without fear. They hold fast
to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, Who can
see them?

Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 40 helpful votes

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of
the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness,
with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity
of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spiritjust as
you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call one Lord, one
faith, one baptism,

Psalm 51:6 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in
the secret heart.

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may
know how you ought to answer each person.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you
are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do
unless God is with him. Jesus answered him, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless
one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to him,
How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his
mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you,
unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of
God.

James 1:21 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with

meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 37 helpful votes

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and
thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high
positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in
every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who
desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For
there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus,

Acts 1:1-26 ESV / 37 helpful votes

In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do
and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands
through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented
himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them
during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. And while staying
with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the
promise of the Father, which, he said, you heard from me; for John baptized
with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from
now.

John 13:35 ESV / 37 helpful votes

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one
another.

James 2:1-26 ESV / 36 helpful votes

My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes
into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if
you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, You sit
here in a good place, while you say to the poor man, You stand over there,
or, Sit down at my feet, have you not then made distinctions among
yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved
brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in
faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love
him?

Job 13:10 ESV / 35 helpful votes

He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.

Proverbs 15:28 ESV / 34 helpful votes

The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the
wicked pours out evil things.

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our

Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to give thanks to God for you,
brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of
every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast
about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your
persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of
the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the
kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering

Mark 7:1-37 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had
come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that
were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat
unless they wash their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders, and when
they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And
there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of
cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) And the Pharisees and
the scribes asked him, Why do your disciples not walk according to the
tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?

Proverbs 10:17 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof
leads others astray.

James 5:1-20 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon
you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold
and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and
will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Behold,
the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by
fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached
the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in selfindulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

1 Corinthians 4:1-21 ESV / 28 helpful votes

This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the
mysteries of God. Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found
trustworthy. But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by
you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself. For I am not
aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the
Lord who judges me. Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time,
before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in
darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will
receive his commendation from God.

Colossians 3:7-8 ESV / 27 helpful votes

In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you

must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from
your mouth.

1 Timothy 4:16 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so
doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.

Proverbs 17:27-28 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a
man of understanding. Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when
he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel
of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy
Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to
the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the
Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the
obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,

Acts 20:1-38 ESV / 24 helpful votes

After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging
them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia. When he had gone
through those regions and had given them much encouragement, he came to
Greece. There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him
by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through
Macedonia. Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the
Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy;
and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus. These went on ahead and were
waiting for us at Troas,

Proverbs 25:23 ESV / 24 helpful votes

The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.

Proverbs 11:9 ESV / 24 helpful votes

With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by
knowledge the righteous are delivered.

1 John 3:1-24 ESV / 23 helpful votes

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called
children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is
that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we
will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be
like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in
him purifies himself as he is pure. Everyone who makes a practice of sinning
also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared to

take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves
to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women
to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at
home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may
not be reviled.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and
peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus
and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up
for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the
gospel,

Proverbs 31:26 ESV / 22 helpful votes

She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her
tongue.

Proverbs 12:17-23 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters
deceit. There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue
of the wise brings healing. Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is
but for a moment. Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those
who plan peace have joy. No ill befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled
with trouble.

Proverbs 10:31 ESV / 22 helpful votes

The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will
be cut off.

Proverbs 25:15 ESV / 21 helpful votes

With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.

Proverbs 26:27-28 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who
starts it rolling. A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works
ruin.

Proverbs 25:28 ESV / 20 helpful votes

A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.

Psalm 52:2-9 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit. You
love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue. But God will break you
down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you
from the land of the living. Selah The righteous shall see and fear, and shall
laugh at him, saying,

Job 27:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes

My lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.

2 Kings 1:1-18 ESV / 20 helpful votes

After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel. Now Ahaziah fell
through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent
messengers, telling them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron,
whether I shall recover from this sickness. But the angel of the Lord said to
Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of
Samaria, and say to them, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are
going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Now therefore thus says
the Lord, You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up,
but you shall surely die. So Elijah went. The messengers returned to the
king, and he said to them, Why have you returned?

Ephesians 5:1-8 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ
loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be
named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor
foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be
thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually
immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no
inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

James 3:5 ESV / 18 helpful votes

So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great
a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!

John 3:16-17 ESV / 18 helpful votes

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes
in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son
into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be
saved through him.

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 18 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to
him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a
heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false
witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Psalm 119:171-173 ESV / 18 helpful votes

My lips will pour forth praise, for you teach me your statutes. My tongue will
sing of your word, for all your commandments are right. Let your hand be
ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

Psalm 109:17-19 ESV / 18 helpful votes

He loved to curse; let curses come upon him! He did not delight in blessing;
may it be far from him! He clothed himself with cursing as his coat; may it
soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones! May it be like a garment
that he wraps around him, like a belt that he puts on every day!

Psalm 15:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor
takes up a reproach against his friend;

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the
sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the
lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and
discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

John 3:16 ESV / 17 helpful votes

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes
in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Proverbs 26:17-28 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog
by the ears. Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death is the
man who deceives his neighbor and says, I am only joking! For lack of wood
the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases. As
charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling
strife.

Proverbs 10:18-19 ESV / 17 helpful votes

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a
fool. When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever
restrains his lips is prudent.

Proverbs 6:1-3 ESV / 17 helpful votes

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge
for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the
words of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have

come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with
your neighbor.

Psalm 15:1-5 ESV / 17 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on
your holy hill? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks
truth in his heart; who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his
neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend; in whose eyes a vile
person is despised, but who honors those who fear the Lord; who swears to
his own hurt and does not change; who does not put out his money at interest
and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things
shall never be moved.

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in
your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

Proverbs 1:24-29 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand
and no one has heeded, because you have ignored all my counsel and would
have none of my reproof, I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when
terror strikes you, when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity
comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you. Then they
will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will
not find me.

Psalm 139:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.

Psalm 35:28 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Then my tongue shall tell of your righteousness and of your praise all the day
long.

Proverbs 26:21-26 ESV / 14 helpful votes

As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for
kindling strife. The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go
down into the inner parts of the body. Like the glaze covering an earthen
vessel are fervent lips with an evil heart. Whoever hates disguises himself with
his lips and harbors deceit in his heart; when he speaks graciously, believe
him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart;

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