[These Are A Meager Sampling].

 

Exodus 20:7:  “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.”

 

Deuteronomy 5:11:  “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain:  for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.”

 

Proverbs 4:24:  “Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.”

 

Proverbs 9:8-9:  “Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee:  rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.  Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser:  teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.”

 

Proverbs 12:23:  “A prudent man concealeth knowledge:  but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.”

 

Proverbs 15:2:  “The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright:  but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.”

 

Ecclesiastes 10:12-14:  “The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. [13] The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness:  and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. [14] A fool also is full of words:  a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?”

 

Matthew 12:34-37:  “O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. [35] A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things:  and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. [36] But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. [37] For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”

 

Galatians 5:15:  “But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.”

 

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.”

 

Ephesians 5:4:  “Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient:  but rather giving of thanks.”

 

Colossians 3:8:  “But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.”

 

James 3:4-10:  “Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. [5] Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things.  Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! [6] And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity:  so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. [7] For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: [8] But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. [9] Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. [10] Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing.  My brethren, these things ought not so to be.”

 

First Peter 3:10:  “For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.”

 

Second Peter 2:7:  “And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:”

 

Second Peter 2:18:  “For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.”

 

Jude 1:10:  “But these speak evil of those things which they know not:  but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.”

 

Jude 1:13:  “Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.”