Let 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.

But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.

Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.

You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.

Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.

And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

Bless those who persecute you. Bless and do not curse.

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.