Bible verses about "speech" | Coverdale

³⁰ Yee the rightuous shal possesse ye lode, & dwell therin for euer. ³¹ The mouth of the rightuous is exercised in wy?dome, & his toge talketh of iudgment.

³ The wordes of his mouth are vnrightuousnesse and disceate, he wil not be lerned to do good. ⁴ He ymagineth myschefe vpon his bedde, he will come in no good waye, ner refuse the thinge that is euell.

¹ A softe aswere putteth downe displeasure, but frowarde wordes prouoke vnto anger.

²³ Who so kepeth his mouth and his tonge, the same kepeth his soule from troubles.

²⁴ Fayre wordes are an hony combe, a refreshinge of ye mynde, & health of ye bones.

⁴ A wholsome tonge is a tre of life, but he that abuseth it, hath a broken mynde.

⁹ The LORDE spake vnto Paul by a vision in ye nighte: Be not afrayed, but speake, and holde not thy peace, ¹⁰ for I am with the: and no man shal inuade the that shal hurte the, for I haue moch people in this cite.

¹⁷ And what soeuer ye do in worde or worke, do all in the name of the LORDE Iesu, and geue thankes vnto God the father by him.

¹⁵ But let vs folowe the trueth in loue, and in all thinges growe in him, which is the heade, euen Christ,

¹² But aboue all thinges my brethre, sweare not, nether by heaue, nether by earth, nether by eny other othe. Let youre ye be ye, and yor naye naye: lest ye faule in to ypocricy.

²¹ Death and life stonde in the power of the tonge, he that loueth it, shal enioye the frute therof.

¹⁹ Wherfore deare brethren, let euery man be swifte to heare, slowe to speake, and slowe to wrath.

² for in many thinges we synne all. Yf a man synne not in worde, the same is a parfecte man, & able to tame all the body. ³ Beholde, we put bittes into the horses mouthes yt they shulde obeye vs, and we turne aboute all the body. ⁴ Beholde also ye shyppes, which though they be so gret, and are dryuen of fearce windes, yet are they turned about with a very smale helme, whither soeuer the violence of the gouerner wyll. ⁵ Euen so the toge is a lyttell member, and bosteth great thinges. Beholde how gret a thinge a lyttell fyre kyndleth, ⁶ and the tonge is fyre, and a worlde of wyckednes. So is the tonge set amonge oure membres, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth a fyre all that we haue of nature, and is it selfe set a fyre euen of hell. ⁷ All the natures of beastes, and of byrdes, and of serpentes, and thinges of the see, are meked and tamed of the nature of ma. ⁸ But the toge can no man tame. Yt is an vnruely euell full of deedly poysou. ⁹ Therwith blesse we God the father, and therwith cursse we men which are made after the similitude of God. ¹⁰ Out of one mouth proceadeth blessynge and cursynge. My brethre these thinges ought not so to be.

⁹ Therwith blesse we God the father, and therwith cursse we men which are made after the similitude of God. ¹⁰ Out of one mouth proceadeth blessynge and cursynge. My brethre these thinges ought not so to be.

¹³ With me is the feare of the LORDE, and ye eschuynge of euell. As for pryde, disdayne, an euell waye, & a mouth that speaketh wicked thiges, I vtterly abhorre the.

¹³ He that geueth sentece in a matter before he heare it, is a foole, and worthy to be confounded.

³ My mouth shal speake of wy?dome, and my hert shal muse of vnderstondinge.

¹⁴ Yee the wordes of my mouth & the meditacio of my herte shalbe acceptable vnto the, o LORDE, my helper and my redemer.

³ Set a watch (o LORDE) before my mouth, yee a watch at the dore of my lippes.

²⁹ Let no filthy communicacion proceade out of youre mouth, but that which is good to edifye withall, wha nede is, that it be gracious to heare.