James 1:26

Anyone who claims to be religious yet does not control his tongue deceives himself, and his religion is worthless. Unbridled speech exposes empty religion.

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• Eph 4:29Let 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.
• Ps 141:3Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
• 1 Pet 3:10For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
• Eph 5:4Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
• Ps 34:13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
• Prov 19:1Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
• Prov 10:31The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
• Prov 10:19In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
• Col 4:6Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
• Jas 1:22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
• Jas 3:2–6For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
• Jas 1:19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
• Prov 16:25There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
• Ps 39:1–2I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
• Luke 8:18Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.
• Prov 13:2–3A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
• Gal 6:3For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
• Prov 14:12There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
• Deut 11:16Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
• Mark 7:7Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
• Prov 21:26He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
• Gal 2:6But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man’s person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:
• Isa 44:20He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
• Mal 3:14Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
• Matt 15:9But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
• Isa 1:13Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
• 1 Cor 15:2By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
• Prov 16:10A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
• 1 Cor 15:15Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
• Ps 32:9Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
• Prov 15:2The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
• Jas 2:20But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
• 1 Cor 3:18Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
• Gal 2:9And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
• Gal 3:4Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

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