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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.

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Exodus 20:14
“You shall not commit adultery.

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Deuteronomy 6:6
These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

Deuteronomy 6:8
You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

Deuteronomy 6:9
You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 11:19
You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Psalms 71:24
My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me.

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Psalms 15:3
he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

Psalms 141:3
Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

James 3:3
Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

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

1 Peter 3:10
For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

2 Peter 2:7
and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

Jude 1:13
wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

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Psalms 119:13
With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.

Psalms 119:46
I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.

Song of Solomon 5:16
His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem.

Song of Solomon 7:9
Your mouth is like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep. Beloved

Luke 4:22
All testified about him and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth; and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

Ephesians 5:18
Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Philippians 4:8
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

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Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Proverbs 18:4
The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

Proverbs 20:15
There is gold and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

Romans 10:14
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

Romans 10:15
And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”

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Zephaniah 3:9
For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.

1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

2 Corinthians 10:8
For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,

2 Corinthians 13:10
For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.

Ephesians 2:20
being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

Ephesians 4:13
until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Ephesians 5:12
For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.

Colossians 2:7
rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

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Proverbs 4:24
Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

Matthew 7:17
Even so, every good tree produces good fruit, but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

Luke 6:45
The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

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1 Corinthians 14:14
For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

1 Corinthians 14:17
For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.

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Ephesians 4:22
that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

Colossians 3:9
Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

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