Luke 6:45

What fills the heart determines what comes out in word and deed; the mouth speaks from the heart's abundance. Our speech reveals our inner character.

Cross-references · 31

• Prov 4:23Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
• Matt 12:34–37You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
• Eph 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.
• John 7:38Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
• Ps 37:30–31The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
• Ps 59:12By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.
• Ps 52:2–4Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
• Col 3:16Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
• Col 4:6Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
• Heb 8:10For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
• Rom 3:13–14“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
• Prov 12:18Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
• Prov 10:20–21The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked has little worth.
• Jas 3:5–8In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
• Ps 12:2–4They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
• Ps 41:6–7My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.
• Ps 40:8–10I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
• Acts 8:19–23“Give me this power as well,” he said, “so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”
• Ps 64:3–8who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
• Eph 5:19Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,
• Eph 5:3–4But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
• Jer 9:2–5If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
• Prov 15:23A man takes joy in a fitting reply—and how good is a timely word!
• Ps 71:15–18My mouth will declare Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, though I cannot know their full measure.
• 2 Cor 4:6–7For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Ps 59:7See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”
• Prov 22:17–18Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise—apply your mind to my knowledge—
• Ps 140:5The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah
• Acts 5:3Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land?
• Jude 1:15to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.”
• Eph 3:8Though I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

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