Mark 7:20

A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

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.

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

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

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.

but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

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

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

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

There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

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

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”

There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.

Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.

They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.

By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

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

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.

Behold, Yahweh’s name comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation. His tongue is as a devouring fire.

transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the earth. This year you will die, because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.’ ”

Yahweh’s Spirit fell on me, and he said to me, “Speak, ‘Yahweh says: “Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand?

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

He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’

Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

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?

and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

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

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son,

Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

Therefore if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast, saying to those who dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.

The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.