Psalms 120:4

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.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

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

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.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

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

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

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.”

He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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 not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she is defiled; or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she isn’t defiled;

God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall consume the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.

then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking Yahweh to anger.

On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

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

He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

A false witness will perish. A man who listens speaks to eternity.

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.

Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me.

In that day, says Yahweh of Armies, I will take you, Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel,’ says Yahweh, ‘and will make you as a signet, for I have chosen you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

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?

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

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

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron,

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

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.

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

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.

Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”

You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

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

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

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

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

For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.

Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.

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

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

“As I live,” says Yahweh, “though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, I would still pluck you from there.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.

They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent.

He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

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.

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

Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.

With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.

One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

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

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

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

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.

Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”

above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.