Proverbs 10:31

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

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

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”

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;

You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

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

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

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath.

to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

Abstain from every form of evil.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

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

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

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

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

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

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

so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes.

Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

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

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.

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

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.”

You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.

Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

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

For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

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

Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.

One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.

So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

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.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

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

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.

The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.