Matthew 12:34

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.

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.

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.

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

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

The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,

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

and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward.

You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.

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.

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.

As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness;’ but my hand will not be on you.

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.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

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

Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.

I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle.

I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”

They asked her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don’t know where they have laid him.”

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.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

“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.

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.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see 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.

Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

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.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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?

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.

the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

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

On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,

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

Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), “where are you staying?”

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Again therefore he asked them, “Who are you looking for?” They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”

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

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

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

They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”

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

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

No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.

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.

He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh’s offering for the work of the Tent of Meeting, and for all of its service, and for the holy garments.

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to test Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great caravan, including camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. When she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.

Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

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

The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

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

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.

They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven.

In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.