Taming Your Tongue / A Self-control in your Mouth

What does the BIBLE say about our tongues?


is it just normal for you to curse? To speak evil of others..to speak some jokes and override topics that are not real?


do you like to indulge in a talk or in a gossip about certain people?


do you curse your wife..husband, parents friends, God and your boss and colleagues?


Well,honestly I was one of this people before. I've learned to change since I met the Lord Jesus.






Let's see what the bible says about it?


ready?



Proverbs 21:23 ESV / 1,413 helpful votes


Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.
Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 1,126 helpful votes


Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 833 helpful votes


A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 12:18 ESV / 728 helpful votes


There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
James 3:2-10 ESV / 713 helpful votes


For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. ...
Psalm 34:13 ESV / 626 helpful votes


Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.
James 1:26 ESV / 589 helpful votes


If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.
Psalm 141:3 ESV / 556 helpful votes


Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!
Proverbs 17:28 ESV / 535 helpful votes


Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
1 Peter 3:10 ESV / 446 helpful votes


For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;
Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 414 helpful votes


Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Matthew 12:33-37 ESV / 337 helpful votes


“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Proverbs 15:4 ESV / 336 helpful votes


A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
James 3:10 ESV / 311 helpful votes


From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
Matthew 15:11 ESV / 280 helpful votes


It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.”
Proverbs 10:19 ESV / 256 helpful votes


When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.
Psalm 52:2 ESV / 236 helpful votes


Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
Titus 3:2 ESV / 228 helpful votes


To speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.
James 3:1-18 ESV / 209 helpful votes


Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! ...
Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 198 helpful votes


Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
Psalm 37:30 ESV / 187 helpful votes


The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
Proverbs 26:20 ESV / 183 helpful votes


For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.
Ecclesiastes 3:7 ESV / 155 helpful votes


A time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
James 4:1-17 ESV / 144 helpful votes


What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? ...
1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 139 helpful votes


So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...
Psalm 39:1 ESV / 138 helpful votes


To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence.”
Exodus 14:14 ESV / 137 helpful votes


The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
James 3:11 ESV / 136 helpful votes


Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water?
Proverbs 10:18 ESV / 125 helpful votes


The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.
James 1:19-20 ESV / 107 helpful votes


Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 103 helpful votes


My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: ...
James 3:2 ESV / 99 helpful votes


For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
James 3:1-12 ESV / 94 helpful votes


Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! ...
Psalm 12:4 ESV / 91 helpful votes


Those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is master over us?”
Isaiah 54:17 ESV / 90 helpful votes


No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of theLord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.”
Galatians 5:16 ESV / 85 helpful votes


But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Colossians 4:6 ESV / 83 helpful votes


Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 79 helpful votes


I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 78 helpful votes


If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...
1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 70 helpful votes


And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. ...
Proverbs 15:28 ESV / 65 helpful votes


The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.
Luke 8:13-16 ESV / 63 helpful votes


And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a while, and in time of testing fall away. And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature. As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience. “No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light.
Matthew 23:1-39 ESV / 62 helpful votes


Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so practice and observe whatever they tell you—but not what they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, ...
Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 61 helpful votes


The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 59 helpful votes


The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...
Proverbs 31:26 ESV / 58 helpful votes


She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.
James 1:1-27 ESV / 55 helpful votes


James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ...
Psalm 19:14 ESV / 50 helpful votes


Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 49 helpful votes


I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ...
Romans 7:1-25 ESV / 48 helpful votes


Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. ...
John 13:35 ESV / 48 helpful votes


By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Psalm 64:1-10 ESV / 47 helpful votes


To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy. Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the throng of evildoers, who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows, shooting from ambush at the blameless, shooting at him suddenly and without fear. They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, “Who can see them?” ...
Psalm 51:6 ESV / 47 helpful votes


Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 46 helpful votes


First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ...
Job 13:10 ESV / 46 helpful votes


He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.
James 1:21 ESV / 44 helpful votes


Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Proverbs 25:28 ESV / 44 helpful votes


A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.
James 2:1-26 ESV / 42 helpful votes


My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? ...
Proverbs 11:9 ESV / 42 helpful votes


With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.
John 3:1-36 ESV / 41 helpful votes


Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...
Proverbs 17:27-28 ESV / 41 helpful votes


Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding. Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
James 3:5 ESV / 40 helpful votes


So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!
Colossians 3:7-8 ESV / 40 helpful votes


In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.
2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 37 helpful votes


Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— ...
Proverbs 26:27-28 ESV / 37 helpful votes


Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling. A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Mark 7:1-37 ESV / 36 helpful votes


Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders, and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” ...
Proverbs 25:15 ESV / 36 helpful votes


With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.
Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 35 helpful votes


Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
1 Timothy 4:16 ESV / 35 helpful votes


Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.
Proverbs 12:17-23 ESV / 35 helpful votes


Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit. There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment. Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those who plan peace have joy. No ill befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble. ...
Proverbs 10:31 ESV / 35 helpful votes


The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
Psalm 139:4 ESV / 35 helpful votes


Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
James 5:1-20 ESV / 34 helpful votes


Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. ...
Acts 1:1-26 ESV / 34 helpful votes


In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” ...
Proverbs 26:17-28 ESV / 34 helpful votes


Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears. Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I am only joking!” For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases. As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife. ...
Job 27:4 ESV / 34 helpful votes


My lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
Ephesians 5:1-8 ESV / 33 helpful votes


Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...
Proverbs 25:23 ESV / 33 helpful votes


The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.
Psalm 119:171-173 ESV / 33 helpful votes


My lips will pour forth praise, for you teach me your statutes. My tongue will sing of your word, for all your commandments are right. Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
1 Corinthians 4:1-21 ESV / 32 helpful votes


This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy. But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself. For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me. Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God. ...
Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 32 helpful votes


There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
Psalm 15:3 ESV / 32 helpful votes


Who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend;
Proverbs 10:18-19 ESV / 31 helpful votes


The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool. When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.
Proverbs 10:17 ESV / 31 helpful votes


Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.
Psalm 52:2-9 ESV / 31 helpful votes


Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit. You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue. But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah The righteous shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying, ...
Psalm 35:28 ESV / 30 helpful votes


Then my tongue shall tell of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.
1 John 3:1-24 ESV / 29 helpful votes


See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. ...
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 28 helpful votes


For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Proverbs 26:21-26 ESV / 28 helpful votes


As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife. The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body. Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are fervent lips with an evil heart. Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart; when he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart; ...
Proverbs 1:24-29 ESV / 28 helpful votes


Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded, because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof, I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you, when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you. Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me. ...
Psalm 109:17-19 ESV / 28 helpful votes


He loved to curse; let curses come upon him! He did not delight in blessing; may it be far from him! He clothed himself with cursing as his coat; may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones! May it be like a garment that he wraps around him, like a belt that he puts on every day!
Psalm 15:1-5 ESV / 28 helpful votes


A Psalm of David. O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart; who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend; in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honors those who fear the Lord; who swears to his own hurt and does not change; who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.
Revelation 21:8 ESV / 27 helpful votes


But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Acts 20:1-38 ESV / 27 helpful votes


After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia. When he had gone through those regions and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece. There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia. Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus. These went on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas, ...
Proverbs 6:1-3 ESV / 26 helpful votes


My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor.
2 Kings 1:1-18 ESV / 25 helpful votes


After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel. Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.” But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Now therefore thus says the Lord, You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’” So Elijah went. The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, “Why have you returned?” ...
Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 23 helpful votes


Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...
Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 21 helpful votes


Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...
John 3:16-17 ESV / 20 helpful votes


“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 3:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes


“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.