1 Timothy 3:8

but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.

Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.

I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

wine that makes the heart of man glad, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.

whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

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

Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.

But they said, “We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, ‘You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your sons, forever.

You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’

They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

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 godliness with contentment is great gain.

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.”

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

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

“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

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

It will happen after the end of seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre. She will return to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

None of the priests shall drink wine when they enter into the inner court.

He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.