Galatians 3:4

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

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.

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.

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

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

‘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.

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

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

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

Anathoth with its pasture lands, and Almon with its pasture lands: four cities.

Stay with me. Don’t be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. For you will be safe with me.”

that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities.

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

When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.

When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he will even die therein.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

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

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

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return. You brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.’ ”

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.”

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

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.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”

The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them;

The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.

This thing isn’t good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh’s anointed. Now see where the king’s spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head.”

Joash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.

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

The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

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

Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

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

The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.

The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin.

None of his transgressions that he has committed will be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.

When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done he shall die.

But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and takes any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’

Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them.

“Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.

But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.”

He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

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

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord Yahweh’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.”

“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

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.