Proverbs 4:24

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

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.

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.

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

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.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

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

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

“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.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

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

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.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

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

Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

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

Abstain from every form of evil.

Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.

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

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

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

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.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

“ ‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

“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.

If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

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

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

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

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

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

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.”

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

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

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

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

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.”

Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.”

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

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

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.

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.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

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

Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”

If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

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

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

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

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.