Leviticus 13:39

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.

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

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;

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

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

“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 a land far off or near;

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

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

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

“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

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

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.

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.

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

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

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

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

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

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

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.

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.

Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day. Behold, if the plague has faded and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”

So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had treated him shamefully.

Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the storehouse of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, or in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.

“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

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

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

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

Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.

While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;

Jesus said to him, “Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”

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.

And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

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.

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

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.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.