Proverbs 12:13

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

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

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

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

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

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.

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

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

He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

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

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

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

Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

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.”

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

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;

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.

Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”

The king swore, and said, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

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

Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

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

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

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

The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, the treacherous for the upright.

A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

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.

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.

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.

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”

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

but the children of the murderers he didn’t put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

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

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

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.

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

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

“I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.”

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

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

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands.

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

As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

A righteous person is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked takes his place.

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

The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”

Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the middle of Ephraim, and in the middle of Manasseh.”

David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

you are trapped by the words of your mouth; you are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.

A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

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

An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing and be glad.

It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also don’t withdraw your hand from that; for he who fears God will come out of them all.

All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”

The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.