But as for the wicked, they do not speak truth at all. Inside them there is only wickedness. Their throat is an open grave, on their tongue is deceitful flattery.

Your tongue, like a sharp razor, devises wicked things and crafts treachery.

Their eyes bulge from obesity and the imaginations of their mind cross the border into sin.

You children of serpents! How can you say anything good when you are evil? The mouth speaks about what overflows from the heart.

Their throats are open graves. With their tongues they deceive. The venom of poisonous snakes is under their lips.

If I have fought with wild animals in Ephesus from merely human motives, what do I get out of it? If the dead are not raised, "Let's eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

But now you must also get rid of anger, wrath, malice, slander, obscene speech, and all such sins.

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.

For all of us make many mistakes. If someone does not make any mistakes when he speaks, he is perfect and able to control his whole body.

By talking high-sounding nonsense and using sinful cravings of the flesh, they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error.

They are wild waves of the sea, churning up the foam of their own shame. They are wandering stars for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.

The beast was allowed to speak arrogant and blasphemous things, and it was given authority for 42 months.

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Let these words that I'm commanding you today be always on your heart.

The mouth of the righteous one produces wisdom; his tongue speaks justice.

You are the most handsome of Adam's descendants; grace has anointed your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.

God, you taught me from my youth, so I am still declaring your awesome deeds.

We will not withhold them from their descendants; we'll declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD his might and awesome deeds that he has performed.

The words of the righteous overflow with wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut out.

An evil man's sinful speech ensnares him, but the righteous person escapes from trouble.

The wise speak, presenting knowledge appropriately, but fools spout foolishness.

The wise-hearted person is told to be discerning, and that pleasant speech promotes instruction.

Like golden apples set in silver is a word spoken at the right time.

"The Lord GOD has given me a learned tongue, so that I may know how to sustain the weary with words. And morning after morning he wakens, and he wakens my ear to listen like those who are being taught.

Then those who feared the LORD talked with each other. The LORD listened and took note, and a scroll of remembrance was written in his presence about those who fear the LORD and honor His name.

All the people began to speak well of him and to wonder at the gracious words that flowed from his mouth. They said, "This is Joseph's son, isn't it?"

But in church I would rather speak five words with my mind to instruct others than 10,000 words in a foreign language.

Let the word of the Messiah inhabit you richly with wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, and singing to God with thankfulness in your hearts.

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.

So then, encourage one another and build each other up, as you are doing.

To the use of edifying

to equip the saints, to do the work of ministry, and to build up the body of the Messiah

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In the same way, let your light shine before people in such a way that they will see your good actions and glorify your Father in heaven."

Continue to live such upright lives among the gentiles that, when they slander you as practicers of evil, they may see your good actions and glorify God when he visits them.

In a similar way, you wives must submit yourselves to your husbands so that, even if some of them refuse to obey the word, they may be won over without a word through your conduct as wives

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The mouth of the righteous one produces wisdom; his tongue speaks justice.