Verse 45
`The good man out of the good treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which `is' good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which `is' evil; for out of the abounding of the heart doth his mouth speak.
Referenced Verses
- Prov 4:23 : 23 Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it `are' the outgoings of life.
- Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;
- Matt 12:34-37 : 34 `Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things -- being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak. 35 The good man out of the good treasure of the heart doth put forth the good things, and the evil man out of the evil treasure doth put forth evil things. 36 `And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment; 37 for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.'
- John 7:38 : 38 he who is believing in me, according as the Writing said, Rivers out of his belly shall flow of living water;'
- Col 4:6 : 6 your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.
- Jas 3:5-8 : 5 so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle! 6 and the tongue `is' a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna. 7 For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature, 8 and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, `it is' an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,
- Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;
- Rom 3:13-14 : 13 A sepulchre opened `is' their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps `is' under their lips. 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
- Prov 10:20-21 : 20 The tongue of the righteous `is' chosen silver, The heart of the wicked -- as a little thing. 21 The lips of the righteous delight many, And fools for lack of heart die.
- Ps 37:30-31 : 30 The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh judgment. 31 The law of his God `is' his heart, His steps do not slide.
- Ps 41:6-7 : 6 And if he came to see -- vanity he speaketh, His heart gathereth iniquity to itself, He goeth out -- at the street he speaketh. 7 All hating me whisper together against me, Against me they devise evil to me:
- Ps 52:2-4 : 2 Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit. 3 Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah. 4 Thou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
- Ps 59:12 : 12 The sin of their mouth `is' a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.
- Prov 12:18 : 18 A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.
- Ps 12:2-4 : 2 Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak. 3 Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things, 4 Who said, `By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips `are' our own; who `is' lord over us?'
- Jer 9:2-5 : 2 Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them `are' adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones. 3 And they bend their tongue, their bow `is' a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah! 4 Each of his friend -- beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk, 5 And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.
- Acts 8:19-23 : 19 saying, `Give also to me this authority, that on whomsoever I may lay the hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.' 20 And Peter said unto him, `Thy silver with thee -- may it be to destruction! because the gift of God thou didst think to possess through money; 21 thou hast neither part nor lot in this thing, for thy heart is not right before God; 22 reform, therefore, from this thy wickedness, and beseech God, if then the purpose of thy heart may be forgiven thee, 23 for in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness, I perceive thee being.'
- Heb 8:10 : 10 because this `is' the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me for a people;
- Eph 5:19 : 19 speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,
- Eph 5:3-4 : 3 and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; 4 also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, -- the things not fit -- but rather thanksgiving;
- 2 Cor 4:6-7 : 6 because `it is' God who said, Out of darkness light `is' to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7 And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us;
- Eph 3:8 : 8 to me -- the less than the least of all the saints -- was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news -- the untraceable riches of the Christ,
- Jude 1:15 : 15 to do judgment against all, and to convict all their impious ones, concerning all their works of impiety that they did impiously, and concerning all the stiff things that speak against Him did impious sinners.'
- Prov 22:17-18 : 17 Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge, 18 For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips.
- Ps 64:3-8 : 3 Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word. 4 To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not. 5 They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?' 6 They search out perverse things, `We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart `are' deep. 7 And God doth shoot them `with' an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds, 8 And they cause him to stumble, Against them `is' their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.
- Ps 71:15-18 : 15 My mouth recounteth Thy righteousness, All the day Thy salvation, For I have not known the numbers. 16 I come in the might of the Lord Jehovah, I mention Thy righteousness -- Thine only. 17 God, Thou hast taught me from my youth, And hitherto I declare Thy wonders. 18 And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might.
- Ps 140:5 : 5 The proud hid a snare for me -- and cords, They spread a net by the side of the path, Snares they have set for me. Selah.
- Ps 59:7 : 7 Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords `are' in their lips, for `Who heareth?'
- Ps 40:8-9 : 8 To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law `is' within my heart. 9 I have proclaimed tidings of righteousness In the great assembly, lo, my lips I restrain not, O Jehovah, Thou hast known. 10 Thy righteousness I have not concealed In the midst of my heart, Thy faithfulness and Thy salvation I have told, I have not hidden Thy kindness and Thy truth, To the great assembly.
- Acts 5:3 : 3 And Peter said, `Ananias, wherefore did the Adversary fill thy heart, for thee to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back of the price of the place?
- Prov 15:23 : 23 Joy `is' to a man in the answer of his mouth, And a word in its season -- how good!