2 Peter 2:18

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.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

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

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

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

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

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

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.

A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.

May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.

“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God—

A mighty king will stand up, who will rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar Jesus,

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

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

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

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.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

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

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;

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.

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

Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many “gods” and many “lords”;

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

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

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

And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

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

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

You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.

You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it.”

The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

“I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.

“I watched at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke. I watched even until the animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.

“The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvelous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is accomplished; for that which is determined will be done.

But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness.

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves. He was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.

But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,

that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

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

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

he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.