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Ephesians 4:29
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. (niv)
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1 Peter 3 15
But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, (niv)
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Ecclesiastes 10:12
Words from the mouth of the wise are gracious, but fools are consumed by their own lips. (niv)
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Mark 9:50
“ Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with each other.” (niv)
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Colossians 3:16
Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. (niv)
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Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but the hearts of fools are not upright. (niv)
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Proverbs 15:4
The soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit. (niv)
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Matthew 5:13
“ You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. (niv)
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Proverbs 22:17-18
Pay attention and turn your ear to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach,for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips. (niv)
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Psalms 119:46
I will speak of your statutes before kings and will not be put to shame, (niv)
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Proverbs 16:21-24
The wise in heart are called discerning, and gracious words promote instruction.Prudence is a fountain of life to the prudent, but folly brings punishment to fools.The hearts of the wise make their mouths prudent, and their lips promote instruction.Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. (niv)
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Proverbs 25:11-12
Like apples of gold in settings of silver is a ruling rightly given.Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold is the rebuke of a wise judge to a listening ear. (niv)
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Psalms 105:2
Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts. (niv)
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Proverbs 26:4-5
Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him.Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes. (niv)
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Psalms 71:23-24
My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you— I whom you have delivered.My tongue will tell of your righteous acts all day long, for those who wanted to harm me have been put to shame and confusion. (niv)
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Psalms 78:3-4
things we have heard and known, things our ancestors have told us.We will not hide them from their descendants; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, his power, and the wonders he has done. (niv)
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Psalms 66:16
Come and hear, all you who fear God; let me tell you what he has done for me. (niv)
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Psalms 37:30-31
The mouths of the righteous utter wisdom, and their tongues speak what is just.The law of their God is in their hearts; their feet do not slip. (niv)
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Deuteronomy 6:6-7
These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (niv)
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Leviticus 2:13
Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings. (niv)
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Deuteronomy 11:19
Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (niv)
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Psalms 45:2
You are the most excellent of men and your lips have been anointed with grace, since God has blessed you forever. (niv)
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2 Kings 2 20-2 Kings 2 22
“ Bring me a new bowl,” he said,“ and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him.Then he went out to the spring and threw the salt into it, saying,“ This is what the Lord says:‘ I have healed this water. Never again will it cause death or make the land unproductive.’”And the water has remained pure to this day, according to the word Elisha had spoken. (niv)
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Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the righteous nourish many, but fools die for lack of sense. (niv)
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Psalms 119:13
With my lips I recount all the laws that come from your mouth. (niv)
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Matthew 12:34-35
You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. (niv)
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Psalms 40:9-10
I proclaim your saving acts in the great assembly; I do not seal my lips, Lord, as you know.I do not hide your righteousness in my heart; I speak of your faithfulness and your saving help. I do not conceal your love and your faithfulness from the great assembly. (niv)
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1 Chronicles 16 24
Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples. (niv)
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Luke 20:20-40
Keeping a close watch on him, they sent spies, who pretended to be sincere. They hoped to catch Jesus in something he said, so that they might hand him over to the power and authority of the governor.So the spies questioned him:“ Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not show partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”He saw through their duplicity and said to them,“ Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?”“ Caesar’s,” they replied.He said to them,“ Then give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”They were unable to trap him in what he had said there in public. And astonished by his answer, they became silent.Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question.“ Teacher,” they said,“ Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless.The secondand then the third married her, and in the same way the seven died, leaving no children.Finally, the woman died too.Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?”Jesus replied,“ The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage,and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection.But in the account of the burning bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord‘ the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”Some of the teachers of the law responded,“ Well said, teacher!”And no one dared to ask him any more questions. (niv)
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Psalms 71:15-18
My mouth will tell of your righteous deeds, of your saving acts all day long— though I know not how to relate them all.I will come and proclaim your mighty acts, Sovereign Lord; I will proclaim your righteous deeds, yours alone.Since my youth, God, you have taught me, and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds.Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, my God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your mighty acts to all who are to come. (niv)
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Malachi 3:16-18
Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other, and the Lord listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored his name.“ On the day when I act,” says the Lord Almighty,“ they will be my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him.And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not. (niv)
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Luke 4:22
All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips.“ Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked. (niv)