Power of words

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• Proverbs 18:21

  Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

• Ephesians 4:29

  Let 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.

• Proverbs 12:18

  There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

• Matthew 12:36

  But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

• Proverbs 16:24

  Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

• Proverbs 15:1

  A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

• Proverbs 21:23

  Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

• Hebrews 4:12

  For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

• Proverbs 15:4

  A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

• James 1:26

  If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

• Psalms 19:14

  Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

• Proverbs 13:3

  He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

• Romans 1:16

  For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

• Matthew 12:37

  For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

• Psalms 119:105

  NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

• Proverbs 10:19

  In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

• 2 Timothy 3:16

  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

• Colossians 4:6

  Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

• Matthew 4:4

  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

• James 1:22

  But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

• 2 Timothy 3:16–17

  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

• John 15:3

  Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

• 1 Corinthians 1:18

  For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

• Colossians 3:8

  But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

• Matthew 15:18

  But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

• Romans 10:17

  So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

• Matthew 24:35

  Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

• John 1:1

  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

• John 6:63

  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

• 2 Timothy 1:7

  For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

• James 3:5

  Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

• Ephesians 6:10

  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

• Proverbs 25:11

  A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

• Psalms 119:11

  Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

• Psalms 141:3

  Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

• John 1:1–51

  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. …

• 1 Thessalonians 2:13

  For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

• Colossians 3:16

  Let 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.

• Deuteronomy 8:3

  And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

• Revelation 1:1

  The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: