Luke 12:13

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

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.

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

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”

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

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

“ ‘ “Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

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

For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, Yahweh your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.

Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in your blood.

Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.

She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.’

But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.”

Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart.

Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.

They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’

“Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh; “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

“Stand in the gate of Yahweh’s house, and proclaim this word there, and say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.’ ”

Yahweh said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.

You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

In the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, the Lord Yahweh’s hand fell on me there.

Then some of the elders of Israel came to me, and sat before me.

I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.

A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.

For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”

He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

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

from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

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

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

“ ‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you.

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,

For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to those who will possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

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.

If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

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

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.