Colossians 3:8

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

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

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

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

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

“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.

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.

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.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

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.

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

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

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.

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.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

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.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

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

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

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.

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

and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn’t repent of their works.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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;

“ ‘You shall not steal. “ ‘You shall not lie. “ ‘You shall not deceive one another.

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

He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

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

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

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

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 first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

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

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

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

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

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

and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus:

for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

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 have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

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,

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

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.

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

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

People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.