Bible verses about "speech" | YLT

³⁰ The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh judgment. ³¹ The law of his God is his heart, His steps do not slide.

³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently—to do good. ⁴ Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'

¹ A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

²³ Whoso is keeping his mouth and his tongue, Is keeping from adversities his soul.

²⁴ Sayings of pleasantness are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.

⁴ A healed tongue is a tree of life, And perverseness in it—a breach in the spirit.

⁹ And the Lord said through a vision in the night to Paul, `Be not afraid, but be speaking and thou mayest be not silent; ¹⁰ because I am with thee, and no one shall set on thee to do thee evil; because I have much people in this city;'

¹⁷ and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus—giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

¹² And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

¹⁵ and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head—the Christ;

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

¹⁹ So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

² for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body; ³ lo, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and their whole body we turn about; ⁴ lo, also the ships, being so great, and by fierce winds being driven, are led about by a very small helm, whithersoever the impulse of the helmsman doth counsel, ⁵ so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle! ⁶ and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna. ⁷ For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature, ⁸ and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison, ⁹ with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God; ¹⁰ out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

⁹ with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God; ¹⁰ out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

¹³ The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

¹³ Whoso is answering a matter before he heareth, Folly it is to him and shame.

³ My mouth speaketh wise things, And the meditations of my heart are things of understanding.

¹⁴ Let the sayings of my mouth, And the meditation of my heart, Be for a pleasing thing before Thee, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer!

³ Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.

²⁹ Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;