Proverbs 10:13

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.

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

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!

Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”

The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.

I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded to him.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works?

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

They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’ ”

Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood. There will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’ ”

Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.

For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

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

The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.

“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another.”

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her tongue.

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

His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem.

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

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

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.

Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.

“You shall not commit adultery.

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

Gideon said, “Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”

You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.

so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.

I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.

“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.”

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

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

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

The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left.”

He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

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 rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.

Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

There is gold and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

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.

All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding: