Colossians 4:6
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6 Let your speech always (A)be gracious, (B)seasoned with salt, (C)so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
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Ephesians 4:29
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29 (A)Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give (B)grace to those who hear.
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1 Peter 3:15
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15 but (A)in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, (B)always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and (C)respect,
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Mark 9:50
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50 (A)Salt is good, (B)but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? (C)Have salt in yourselves, and (D)be at peace with one another.”
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Ecclesiastes 10:12
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- Ecclesiastes 10:12 Or are gracious
Proverbs 15:4
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- Proverbs 15:4 Or healing
Proverbs 15:7
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- Proverbs 15:7 Or the hearts of fools are not steadfast
Colossians 3:16
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16 Let (A)the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, (B)singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, (C)with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
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Proverbs 22:17-18
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Words of the Wise
17 (A)Incline your ear, and hear (B)the words of the wise,
(C)and apply your heart to my knowledge,
18 for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you,
if all of them are ready on your lips.
Matthew 5:13
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Salt and Light
13 “You are the salt of the earth, (A)but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.
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Proverbs 16:21-24
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21 The wise of heart is called discerning,
and sweetness of speech (A)increases persuasiveness.
22 Good sense is (B)a fountain of life to him who has it,
but the instruction of fools is folly.
23 (C)The heart of the wise makes his speech judicious
and adds persuasiveness to his lips.
24 (D)Gracious words are like (E)a honeycomb,
sweetness to the soul and (F)health to the body.
Proverbs 26:4-5
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4 (A)Answer not a fool according to his folly,
lest you be like him yourself.
5 (B)Answer a fool according to his folly,
lest he be (C)wise in his own eyes.
Psalm 119:46
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46 I will also speak of your testimonies (A)before kings
and shall not be put to shame,
Matthew 12:34-35
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34 (A)You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, (B)when you are evil? (C)For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 (D)The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.
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Proverbs 10:21
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21 The lips of the righteous feed many,
but fools die for (A)lack of sense.
Proverbs 25:11-12
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11 (A)A word fitly spoken
is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.
12 Like (B)a gold ring or an ornament of gold
is a wise reprover to (C)a listening ear.
Psalm 105:2
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2 Sing to him, sing praises to him;
(A)tell of all his wondrous works!
Psalm 78:3-4
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3 things that we have heard and known,
that our (A)fathers have told us.
4 We will not (B)hide them from their children,
but (C)tell to the coming generation
the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might,
and (D)the wonders that he has done.
Psalm 71:23-24
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23 My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have (A)redeemed.
24 And my (B)tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been (C)put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.
Psalm 45:2
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2 You are (A)the most handsome of the sons of men;
(B)grace is poured upon your lips;
therefore God has blessed you forever.
Psalm 40:9-10
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9 I have told the glad news of deliverance[a]
in (A)the great congregation;
behold, I have not (B)restrained my lips,
(C)as you know, O Lord.
10 I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart;
I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation;
I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness
from the great congregation.
Footnotes
- Psalm 40:9 Hebrew righteousness; also verse 10
Luke 20:20-40
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20 (A)So they (B)watched him and sent spies, who (C)pretended to be sincere, that they might (D)catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of (E)the governor. 21 So they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and (F)show no partiality,[a] but truly teach (G)the way of God. 22 Is it lawful for us to give (H)tribute to (I)Caesar, or not?” 23 But he perceived their (J)craftiness, and said to them, 24 “Show me (K)a denarius.[b] Whose likeness and inscription does it have?” They said, “Caesar's.” 25 He said to them, “Then (L)render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” 26 And they were not able in the presence of the people (M)to catch him in what he said, but marveling at his answer they became silent.
Sadducees Ask About the Resurrection
27 There came to him (N)some Sadducees, (O)those who deny that there is a resurrection, 28 and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us (P)that if a man's brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man[c] must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. 29 Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children. 30 And the second 31 and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died. 32 Afterward the woman also died. 33 In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.”
34 And Jesus said to them, (Q)“The sons of this age (R)marry and (S)are given in marriage, 35 but those who are (T)considered worthy to attain to (U)that age and to the resurrection from the dead (V)neither marry (W)nor are given in marriage, 36 for (X)they cannot die anymore, because they are (Y)equal to angels and (Z)are (AA)sons of God, being (AB)sons[d] of the resurrection. 37 But that the dead are raised, (AC)even Moses showed, in (AD)the passage about the bush, where he calls (AE)the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. 38 Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all (AF)live to him.” 39 Then some of the scribes (AG)answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.” 40 For (AH)they no longer dared to ask him any question.
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- Luke 20:21 Greek and do not receive a face
- Luke 20:24 A denarius was a day's wage for a laborer
- Luke 20:28 Greek his brother
- Luke 20:36 Greek huioi; see Preface
Luke 4:22
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22 And all spoke well of him and marveled at (A)the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they said, (B)“Is not this (C)Joseph's son?”
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Psalm 119:13
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- Psalm 119:13 Or all the just decrees
Psalm 71:15-18
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15 My (A)mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for (B)their number is past my knowledge.
16 With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.
17 O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.
18 So even to (C)old age and gray hairs,
O God, (D)do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
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