Psalms 52:2

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.

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.

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.

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.

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

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.

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

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

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

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”

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

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

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.”

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

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

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

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;

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”

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

I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

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?

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

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

but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

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.

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

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

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

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

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.

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

For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

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.

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

Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

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;

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

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

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

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

He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

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

In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

Be it known now to the king that if this city is built and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.

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

in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

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

He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.

for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

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

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.

If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.

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.”

After the treaty made with him he will work deceitfully; for he will come up, and will become strong, with a small people.

They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

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

I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.