But He answered, “It is written:

Man must not live on bread alone
but on every word that comes
from the mouth of God.”

Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled:

I will open My mouth in parables;
I will declare things kept secret
from the foundation of the world.

It’s not what goes into the mouth that defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.”

“Don’t you realize that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is eliminated?

But what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and this defiles a man.

“But, so we won’t offend them, go to the sea, cast in a fishhook, and take the first fish that you catch. When you open its mouth you’ll find a coin. Take it and give it to them for Me and you.”

Wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I asked Your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn’t.”

So they brought him to Him. When the spirit saw Him, it immediately convulsed the boy. He fell to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.

Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue set free, and he began to speak, praising God.

just as He spoke by the mouth
of His holy prophets in ancient times;

They were all speaking well of Him and were amazed by the gracious words that came from His mouth, yet they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

A good man produces good out of the good storeroom of his heart. An evil man produces evil out of the evil storeroom, for his mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

Often a spirit seizes him; suddenly he shrieks, and it throws him into convulsions until he foams at the mouth; wounding him, it hardly ever leaves him.

“Why do we need any more testimony,” they said, “since we’ve heard it ourselves from His mouth?”

A jar full of sour wine was sitting there; so they fixed a sponge full of sour wine on hyssop and held it up to His mouth.

“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit through the mouth of David spoke in advance about Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.

But what God predicted through the mouth of all the prophets—that His Messiah would suffer—He has fulfilled in this way.

Heaven must welcome Him until the times of the restoration of all things, which God spoke about by the mouth of His holy prophets from the beginning.

You said through the Holy Spirit, by the mouth of our father David Your servant:

Why did the Gentiles rage
and the peoples plot futile things?

Now the Scripture passage he was reading was this:

He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
and as a lamb is silent before its shearer,
so He does not open His mouth.

“‘No, Lord!’ I said. ‘For nothing common or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’

After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them: “Brothers, you are aware that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the gospel message and believe.

Therefore we have sent Judas and Silas, who will personally report the same things by word of mouth.

As Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of a crime or of moral evil, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you Jews.

But the high priest Ananias ordered those who were standing next to him to strike him on the mouth.

Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment.

On the contrary, what does it say? The message is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. This is the message of faith that we proclaim:

If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation.

No foul language is to come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear.

Pray also for me, that the message may be given to me when I open my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel.

But now you must also put away all the following: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.

and then the lawless one will be revealed. The Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of His mouth and will bring him to nothing with the brightness of His coming.

But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that the proclamation might be fully made through me and all the Gentiles might hear. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth.

Praising and cursing come out of the same mouth. My brothers, these things should not be this way.

He did not commit sin,
and no deceit was found in His mouth;

He had seven stars in His right hand; a sharp double-edged sword came from His mouth, and His face was shining like the sun at midday.

Therefore repent! Otherwise, I will come to you quickly and fight against them with the sword of My mouth.

So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am going to vomit you out of My mouth.

So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, “Take and eat it; it will be bitter in your stomach, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.”

Then I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I ate it, my stomach became bitter.

From his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river flowing after the woman, to sweep her away in a torrent.

But the earth helped the woman. The earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river that the dragon had spewed from his mouth.

The beast I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like a bear’s, and his mouth was like a lion’s mouth. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.

A mouth was given to him to speak boasts and blasphemies. He was also given authority to act for 42 months.

Then I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming from the dragon’s mouth, from the beast’s mouth, and from the mouth of the false prophet.

A sharp sword came from His mouth, so that He might strike the nations with it. He will shepherd them with an iron scepter. He will also trample the winepress of the fierce anger of God, the Almighty.

The rest were killed with the sword that came from the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.