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Deuteronomy 6:7
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And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
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Proverbs 23:9
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Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
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Proverbs 25:9
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Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:
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Proverbs 25:11
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A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
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Isaiah 1:18
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Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
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Isaiah 50:4
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The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
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Matthew 12:36
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But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
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Matthew 18:15-17
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Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
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But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
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And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a publican.
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1 Corinthians 14:18-19
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I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
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Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
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Ephesians 4:29
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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.
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Colossians 4:6
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Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
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James 5:12
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But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
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