Luke 6:45

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

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

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

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,

Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

A gracious woman obtains honor, but violent men obtain riches.

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.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

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

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

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.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

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 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 your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

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

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

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

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

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.

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

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

This is my covenant with them, when I will take away their sins.”

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

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

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

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.

Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

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.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?

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.

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

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

“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.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

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.

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

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

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.”

and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?

You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

One of the multitude said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

They talked with each other about all of these things which had happened.

There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?