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 your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
• Matt 12:34–37You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
• Eph 4:29Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
• John 7:38He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
• Ps 37:30–31The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.
• Ps 59:12For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.
• Ps 52:2–4Your tongue plots destruction, 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 with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
• Col 4:6Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
• Heb 8:10“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
• Rom 3:13–14“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips”;
• Prov 12:18There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
• Prov 10:20–21The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.
• Jas 3:5–8So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
• Ps 12:2–4Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
• Ps 41:6–7If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
• Ps 40:8–10I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
• Acts 8:19–23saying, “Give me also this power, that whomever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”
• Ps 64:3–8who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
• Eph 5:19speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
• Eph 5:3–4But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes 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 are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
• Prov 15:23Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!
• Ps 71:15–18My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.
• 2 Cor 4:6–7seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone 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 spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”
• Prov 22:17–18Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.
• Ps 140:5The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
• Acts 5:3But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
• Jude 1:15to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
• Eph 3:8To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

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