1 Corinthians 10:23

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

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

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

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

But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state and that he may comfort your hearts.

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

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

The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.

He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly.

Let all that you do be done in love.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded.

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting,

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.

and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—