How you speak starts with the heart.
How you speak starts with your attitude.
Honour thy mother and father.
Thou shalt not use the Lord thy God’s
name in vain.
Thou shalt not bear false witness. Do not lie.
1Peter 2:1 1Peter 2:1 ¶ Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
1Peter 2:17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. {Honour all: or, Esteem all}
Psalms 34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from
speaking guile.
Dishonesty to fool people.
To make someone to believe a lie by being clever. Using what you say to stir up a riot – making
people angry.
Speaking in Prayer – like Daniel
Speak boldly (with confidence) the truth of God. Like Paul
Ephesians 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things,
Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Ephesians 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Timothy 5:13 And
withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only
idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
Col 4:6 Let your
speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt,
that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Proverbs 15:1 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous
words stir up anger.
