The soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.

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.

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling lies.

Whoever conceals hatred with lying lips and spreads slander is a fool.

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.

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.

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

All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.

If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.

Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.

So is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.

Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.

The lips of the righteous know what finds favor, but the mouth of the wicked only what is perverse.

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

The Lord detests lying lips, but he delights in people who are trustworthy.

The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Blessings crown the head of the righteous, but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked.

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.

May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.

The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts.

My mouth is filled with your praise, declaring your splendor all day long.

In that day you will say: “Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted.”

Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be.

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

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.

Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and it will be done.”

Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless.

But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.

Save me, Lord, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.

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

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

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

The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked is of little value.

I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.

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.

When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

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

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

Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.

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.

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

All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.

Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.

Those who guard their lips preserve their lives, but those who speak rashly will come to ruin.

The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating.

You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?” If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed.

A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.