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Matthew 15:18 ESV / 30 helpful votes But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 24 helpful votes 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 grace to those who hear.Matthew 15:11 ESV / 23 helpful votes It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.”Mark 7:1-37 ESV / 19 helpful votes Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders, and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” …Luke 6:45 ESV / 11 helpful votes The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.1 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.Romans 14:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.Acts 10:1-48 ESV / 10 helpful votes At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.” And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter. …Proverbs 15:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.Proverbs 12:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.1 Peter 3:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;
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