For there is not [anything] reliable in his mouth; their inner part [is] destruction. Their throat is an open grave; [with] their tongue they speak deceit.

Your tongue plans destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit.

Their eye bulges from fat. Imaginings overflow [their] heart.

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say good things [when you] are evil? For from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Their throat [is] an opened grave; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps [is] under their lips,

If according to a human perspective I fought wild beasts at Ephesus, what benefit [is it] to me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

But now you also lay aside all [these] things: anger, rage, wickedness, slander, abusive language from your mouth.

Let your speech always [be] with grace, seasoned with salt, so that [you] may know how it is necessary for you to answer each one.

For we all stumble [in] many [ways]. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he [is] a perfect individual, able to hold in check his whole body also.

{For by speaking high-sounding but empty words}, they entice with desires of the flesh [and] with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error,

wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shameful deeds, wandering stars, for whom the deep gloom of darkness has been reserved for eternity.

And a mouth was given to him speaking great [things] and blasphemies, and authority to act was given to him [for] forty-two months.

That which

And these words that I am commanding you {today} shall be on your heart.

[The] mouth of [the] righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.

You are [the most] handsome of [the] sons of humankind; grace is poured out on your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.

O God, you have taught me from my youth, and up to now I have proclaimed your wonderful deeds.

We will not hide [them] from their children, telling the next generation the praises of Yahweh, and his power and his wonders that he has done.

The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but a tongue of perversity will be cut off.

By the transgression of lips, evil is ensnared, but the righteous escapes from trouble.

The tongue of the wise will dispense knowledge, but the mouth of fools will pour out folly.

The wise of heart is called perceptive, but he who is pleasant of lips will increase persuasiveness.

Apples of gold in a setting of silver is a matter spoken at its proper time.

The Lord Yahweh has given me [the] tongue of pupil, to know how to help [the] weary [with] a word. He awakens {morning by morning}, awakens an ear for me to listen as [do] the pupils.

Then those who revered Yahweh spoke {with one another}. And Yahweh listened attentively and heard, and a scroll of remembrance was written {before him} of those who revere Yahweh and ponder his name.

And they were all speaking well of him, and were astonished at the gracious words that were coming out of his mouth. And they were saying, "Is this man not the son of Joseph?"

but in the church I prefer to speak five words with my mind, in order that I may instruct other [people], than ten thousand words in a tongue.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another with all wisdom, with psalms, hymns, [and] spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God,

Let your speech always [be] with grace, seasoned with salt, so that [you] may know how it is necessary for you to answer each one.

Therefore encourage one another and build up {each other}, just as indeed you are doing.

To the use of edifying

for the equipping of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

Minister

In the [same] way let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

maintaining your good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in [the things] in which they slander you as evildoers, by seeing your good deeds they may glorify God on the day of visitation.

In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some are disobedient to the word, they may be won over without a word by the conduct of their wives,

General references

[The] mouth of [the] righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.