Mark 12:34

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

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,

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 shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.

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.”

I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.

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.

Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.

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.

“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.

The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

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.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.

and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.

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

You shall bring them near to Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

They couldn’t answer him regarding these things.

Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?

They didn’t dare to ask him any more questions.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

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.

Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.

Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

Then Yahweh said to me, “You have seen well; for I watch over my word to perform it.”

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

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 servant therefore fell down and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!’

Jesus answered them, “I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things.

and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

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

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

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

who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

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

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

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.

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.

From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.

The young man said to him, “All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”

Simon answered, “He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most.” He said to him, “You have judged correctly.”

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.”

He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”

But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

He said, “I have observed all these things from my youth up.”

So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.