Ecclesiastes 5:6

The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

For this is he, of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

As it is written in the prophets, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you:

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.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

Praise Yahweh, you angels of his, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, obeying the voice of his word.

Elisha prayed, and said, “Yahweh, please open his eyes, that he may see.” Yahweh opened the young man’s eyes; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,

He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.

You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses.”

Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to Yahweh’s law.

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

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

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready! Make his paths straight!”

and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you don’t dash your foot against a stone.’ ”

Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and served him.

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

This is he of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

Yahweh, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your offspring—he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

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

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

“I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.”

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.”

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

Then Haggai, Yahweh’s messenger, spoke Yahweh’s message to the people, saying, “I am with you,” says Yahweh.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

The angel answered the women, “Don’t be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified.

They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army praising God, and saying,

Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out and said,

Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

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

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

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment;

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”

The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh, and their sin offering before Yahweh, for their error.

The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.

(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the angels.

I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

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.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.