Psalms 5:9

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.

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.

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

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

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

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

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.

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

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

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

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.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.

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

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’

Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

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

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

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

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.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

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

Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.

whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

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

Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

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

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,

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.

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

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

Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war: fifty thousand who could command and were not of double heart.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

both low and high, rich and poor together.

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

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.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.

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

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

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.

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

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

Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets.

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.

Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),