Matthew 12:37

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

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

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.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

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

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

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

David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’ ”

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.

“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

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

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

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

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

then the priest shall examine them. Behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash. It has broken out in the skin. He is clean.

Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”

“If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

If you don’t know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.

While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;

Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

the oath which he swore to Abraham our father,

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.’

“He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’

“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.

They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

Jesus said to him, “Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”

Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus,

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

He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

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.

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

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.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.