Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it {are} the issues of life. {with...: Heb. above all keeping}

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. {to...: or, to edify profitably}

He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

{For} the sin of their mouth {and} the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying {which} they speak.

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Let your speech {be} alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

For this {is} the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: {put: Gr. give} {in: or, upon}

Their throat {is} an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps {is} under their lips:

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise {is} health.

The tongue of the just {is as} choice silver: the heart of the wicked {is} little worth.

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! {a matter: or, wood}

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: {with} flattering lips {and} with a double heart do they speak. {a double...: Heb. an heart and an heart}

And if he come to see {me}, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; {when} he goeth abroad, he telleth {it}.

Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law {is} within my heart. {within...: Heb. in the midst of my bowels}

Who whet their tongue like a sword, {and} bend {their bows to shoot} their arrows, {even} bitter words:

Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

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 {be} all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word {spoken} in due season, how good {is it}! {due...: Heb. his season}

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to {give} the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. {hath: Gr. is he who hath}

My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness {and} thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers {thereof}.

Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords {are} in their lips: for who, {say they}, doth hear?

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back {part} of the price of the land? {to lie to: or, to deceive}

To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard {speeches} which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it {are} the issues of life. {with...: Heb. above all keeping}

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep {it}, and bring forth fruit with patience.

And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. {teach: Heb. whet, or, sharpen}

{Thou} blind Pharisee, cleanse first that {which is} within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. {uttereth: Heb. teacheth}

For {there is} no man {that} doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.

{There is} treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.

And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people.

And they talked together of all these things which had happened.