Psalms 140:11

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.

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

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

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.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

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

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

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

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.

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;

Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”

who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

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

He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.

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

There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

He said, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then Yahweh said to me, “The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

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.

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

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

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

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring the children of Israel out from among them.”

This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.

Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names on my lips.

Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

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

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.

Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man:

Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.

A high look and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:

But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.

I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I lay my vengeance on them.” ’ ”

therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.

I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.” ’

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

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

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.

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

Yahweh says, “In this you shall know that I am Yahweh. Behold: I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.

I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.

“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.

“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

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

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

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

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

By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful crave violence.

A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.

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

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.

They all said to each other, “Come! Let’s cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence.

“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

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

He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh.

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.

Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

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

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

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

They hunt our steps, so that we can’t go in our streets. Our end is near. Our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.

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

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.