Matthew 12:36
I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
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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.
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Genesis 3:15
I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
Psalms 96:13
before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.
Psalms 110:1
Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”
Ecclesiastes 3:17
I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”
Isaiah 42:3
He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.
John 5:28
Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
John 16:11
about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.
Acts 10:42
He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.
Colossians 3:4
When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
Hebrews 9:27
Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
1 John 3:8
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Revelation 1:7
Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
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1 Samuel 24:13
As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness;’ but my hand will not be on you.
1 Samuel 25:10
Nabal answered David’s servants and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.
1 Samuel 25:11
Shall I then take my bread, my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don’t know where they come from?”
Psalms 41:6
If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
Isaiah 32:6
For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Jeremiah 13:23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Matthew 15:11
That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”
Matthew 15:18
But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
Mark 7:15
There is nothing from outside of the man that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.
Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
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2 Chronicles 32:26
However, Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.
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Esther 2:23
When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king’s presence.
Esther 6:1
On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.
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Job 13:4
But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
Job 13:5
Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
Job 16:2
“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
Job 16:3
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Job 26:1
Then Job answered,
Job 26:2
“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
Job 26:3
How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
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Job 19:23
“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Job 19:24
That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
Job 19:25
But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
Psalms 56:8
You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?
Psalms 79:12
Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
Isaiah 65:6
“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom
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Job 24:14
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
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Job 24:15
The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.
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Job 37:20
Will it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
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Job 1:22
In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.
Job 9:20
Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
Job 15:5
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
Job 15:6
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
Job 15:34
For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
Job 34:35
‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’
Job 35:2
“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’
Job 35:16
therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”
Job 38:2
“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 42:3
You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.
Job 42:6
Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
Job 42:7
It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
Job 42:8
Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”
Psalms 143:2
Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
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Psalms 107:42
The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.
Proverbs 10:6
Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Acts 3:10
They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
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Ecclesiastes 5:7
For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.
Isaiah 58:13
“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable, and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,
Matthew 20:3
He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.
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Isaiah 5:18
Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope,
Isaiah 5:19
who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”
Isaiah 28:15
“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’ ”
Isaiah 28:17
I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.
Isaiah 57:4
Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood,
Ezekiel 8:12
Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the land.’ ”
Ezekiel 9:9
Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’
Amos 5:18
“Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.
Zephaniah 1:12
It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”
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Psalms 62:12
Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.
Proverbs 12:14
A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded to him.
Jeremiah 17:10
“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
Matthew 7:24
“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.
Matthew 25:35
for I was hungry and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and you took me in.
Galatians 6:5
For each man will bear his own burden.
Galatians 6:7
Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
Colossians 3:8
but now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
James 2:18
Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
James 2:20
But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
James 4:13
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
James 5:9
Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
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Isaiah 59:13
transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Jeremiah 5:23
“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.
Jeremiah 9:2
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Hosea 7:13
Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
Haggai 1:2
“This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’ ”
Jude 1:10
But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.
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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Exodus 4:10
Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”
Exodus 6:12
Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, when I have uncircumcised lips?”
Exodus 6:30
Moses said before Yahweh, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?”
Jeremiah 1:6
Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.”
Zechariah 3:1
He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
Zechariah 3:2
Yahweh said to Satan, “Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”
Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.
Zechariah 3:4
He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, “Take the filthy garments off him.” To him he said, “Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing.”
Zechariah 3:5
I said, “Let them set a clean turban on his head.” So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; and Yahweh’s angel was standing by.
Zechariah 3:6
Yahweh’s angel solomnly assured Joshua, saying,
Zechariah 3:7
“Yahweh of Armies says: ‘If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.
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Matthew 5:34
but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;
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Matthew 7:19
Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Luke 6:43
“For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.
Luke 6:44
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
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Matthew 12:18
“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.
Romans 8:19
For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
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Matthew 11:23
You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today.
Matthew 12:38
Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
Matthew 12:41
The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.
Matthew 12:42
The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.
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Matthew 12:50
For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
Romans 12:2
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Ephesians 6:4
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:5
Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,
Ephesians 6:6
not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
Ephesians 6:8
knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.
Colossians 3:24
knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
Colossians 3:25
But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.
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Matthew 13:49
So it will be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous,
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Matthew 13:50
and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
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Matthew 18:24
When he had begun to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
Matthew 18:25
But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Matthew 18:26
The servant therefore fell down and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!’
Matthew 18:27
The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him and forgave him the debt.
Matthew 18:28
“But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’
Matthew 18:29
“So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will repay you!’
Matthew 18:30
He would not, but went and cast him into prison until he should pay back that which was due.
Matthew 18:31
So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told their lord all that was done.
Matthew 18:32
Then his lord called him in and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.
Matthew 18:33
Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’
Matthew 18:34
His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors until he should pay all that was due to him.
Matthew 18:35
So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”
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Psalms 64:7
But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.
Psalms 120:4
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
Psalms 140:9
As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
Psalms 140:10
Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.
Matthew 27:25
All the people answered, “May his blood be on us and on our children!”
Matthew 27:63
saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’
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Mark 7:20
He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.
Hebrews 7:6
but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.
James 1:14
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
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Acts 2:30
Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,
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Acts 2:31
he foreseeing this, spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn’t left in Hades, and his flesh didn’t see decay.
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Acts 19:40
For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning today’s riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn’t be able to give an account of this commotion.”
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Psalms 12:3
May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,
Psalms 52:2
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalms 73:8
They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
Psalms 149:9
to execute on them the written judgment. All his saints have this honor. Praise Yah!
Proverbs 17:20
One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
Ecclesiastes 10:20
Don’t curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don’t curse the rich in your bedroom, for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter.
Jeremiah 9:3
“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 9:4
“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.
Jeremiah 9:5
Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity.
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”
Romans 3:13
“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”
Revelation 13:5
A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
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Psalms 12:4
who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”
Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Romans 3:10
As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.
Romans 3:11
There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
Romans 3:12
They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”
Romans 3:14
“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
Romans 3:15
“Their feet are swift to shed blood.
Romans 3:16
Destruction and misery are in their ways.
Romans 3:17
The way of peace, they haven’t known.”
Romans 3:18
“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
2 Peter 2:17
These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
Jude 1:16
These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
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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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2 Corinthians 5:13
For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.
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Deuteronomy 27:26
‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ”
Job 31:30
(I have certainly not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);
Galatians 3:10
For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
James 2:10
For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
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Isaiah 3:10
Tell the righteous that it will be well with them, for they will eat the fruit of their deeds.
Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.
Romans 2:5
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God,
1 Corinthians 6:9
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
Ephesians 4:25
Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.
Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
Colossians 3:9
Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
1 Timothy 2:8
I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
James 3:14
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
James 4:1
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
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1 Corinthians 3:13
each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.
1 Corinthians 6:10
nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.
1 Corinthians 6:11
Some of you were such, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
Galatians 5:20
idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
Galatians 5:21
envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
Ephesians 4:28
Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
Philippians 2:13
For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Colossians 2:6
As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,
James 1:9
Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
James 1:10
and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
James 2:14
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
James 2:15
And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
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Ephesians 5:16
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
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Philippians 4:15
You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.
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Philippians 4:17
Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
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Colossians 4:5
Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.
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Psalms 141:3
Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
Proverbs 12:23
A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.
Proverbs 13:3
He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
Proverbs 18:5
To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.
Proverbs 18:6
A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.
Proverbs 21:23
Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
Ecclesiastes 5:6
Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
2 Corinthians 11:15
It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
Titus 1:11
whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.
James 3:11
Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
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.
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Job 8:2
“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
Job 11:2
“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?
Job 15:3
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
Psalms 34:13
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.
Proverbs 14:23
In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.
Proverbs 15:2
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools gush out folly.
Ecclesiastes 5:3
For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.
Ecclesiastes 10:14
A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?
1 Timothy 6:4
he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
1 Timothy 6:5
constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.
Titus 1:10
For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
Titus 1:12
One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”
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Psalms 37:30
The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.
Psalms 37:31
The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.
Psalms 45:1
My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.
Psalms 45:2
You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.
Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 10:20
The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.
Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
Proverbs 15:23
Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!
Proverbs 15:26
Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.
Proverbs 18:4
The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
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?”
Titus 2:8
and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.
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Ecclesiastes 11:10
Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
Luke 12:42
The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
1 Corinthians 4:2
Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
1 Timothy 4:14
Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the elders.
Hebrews 6:2
of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
1 Peter 4:10
As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.
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Deuteronomy 5:20
“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them, for the deeds of their hands will be paid back to them.
Zechariah 8:16
These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
2 Corinthians 2:16
to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
James 2:3
and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”
James 2:8
However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
James 2:13
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
James 2:16
and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
James 2:24
You see then that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.
James 3:1
Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
James 4:11
Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
James 5:6
You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.
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2 Peter 2:7
and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked
2 Peter 2:8
(for that righteous man dwelling among them was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds),
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Hebrews 10:26
For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
Hebrews 10:27
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
Hebrews 10:28
A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
Hebrews 10:29
How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
1 John 5:16
If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.
1 John 5:17
All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not leading to death.
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