Sin is not ended by multiplying words, but the prudent hold their tongues.

Words from the mouth of the wise are gracious, but fools are consumed by their own lips.

We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check.

A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy person keeps a secret.

Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.

Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.

You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine.

In my distress I called to the Lord; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears.

Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.

And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.

For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done.

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.

I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, ‘Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?’

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.

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

For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.