Proverbs 23:16
My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
BSB
ASV
Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.
KJV
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
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The walk8
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Ephesians 4:29Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.
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Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool consume him.
The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but not so the hearts of fools.
But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
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James 3:2We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body.
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If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.