Matthew 15:17

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

for they hadn’t understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

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.

“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.

I have also made a decree that whoever alters this message, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened on it; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.

The king answered the Chaldeans, “The thing has gone from me. If you don’t make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut in pieces, and your houses will be made a dunghill.

Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver like this.”

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

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

(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

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.

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

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

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

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

A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

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

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

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

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.”

He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house’s mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.

The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

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

They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.

He brought out the Asherah from Yahweh’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.

Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter, so five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell down slain.

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

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.

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

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

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.

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

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.

My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

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

O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

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.

“Say now to the rebellious house, ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took its king, and its princes, and brought them to him to Babylon.

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.

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?” They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”

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

How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

“When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,

because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, making all foods clean?”

Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, “Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?

But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not” (let the reader understand), “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,

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.

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.

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

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.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

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.”

He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

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?

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

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.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.