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 4:23Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
• Matt 12:34–37O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
• 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.
• John 7:38He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
• Ps 37:30–31The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
• Ps 59:12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
• Ps 52:2–4Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
• Col 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
• Col 4:6Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
• Heb 8:10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
• Rom 3:13–14Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
• Prov 12:18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
• Prov 10:20–21The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
• Jas 3:5–8Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
• Ps 12:2–4They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
• Ps 41:6–7And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
• Ps 40:8–10I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
• Acts 8:19–23Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
• Ps 64:3–8Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
• Eph 5:19Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
• Eph 5:3–4But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
• Jer 9:2–5Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
• Prov 15:23A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
• Ps 71:15–18My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
• 2 Cor 4:6–7For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Ps 59:7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
• Prov 22:17–18Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
• Ps 140:5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
• Acts 5:3But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
• Jude 1:15To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
• Eph 3:8Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

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