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Matthew 12:37
For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

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Matthew 12:36
I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

Ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Ephesians 5:4
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

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James 3:2
For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

James 3:5
So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

James 3:7
For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;

James 3:8
but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

James 3:9
With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.

James 1:26
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Luke 19:22
“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down and reaping that which I didn’t sow.

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James 2:24
You see then that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.

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