Speaking
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Speaking’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.
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for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.
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The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
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For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down. As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife. The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the…
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A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.
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for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.
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If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.
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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.
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Isaiah 6:5 OT
Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”
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Isaiah 32:6 OT
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.
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Isaiah 32:7 OT
The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
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For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take…
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Matthew 5:22 NT
But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of…
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Matthew 5:37 NT
But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.
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You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings…
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Acts 23:5 NT
Paul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’ ”
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Romans 1:29 NT
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
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Romans 1:30 NT
backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
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Romans 3:13 NT
“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”
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Romans 3:14 NT
“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
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nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.
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Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
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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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Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.