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Proverbes 4:23
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. (niv)
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Ephésiens 4:29
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. (niv)
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Matthieu 12:34-37
You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” (niv)
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Jean 7:38
Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” (niv)
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Psaumes 37:30-31
The mouths of the righteous utter wisdom, and their tongues speak what is just.The law of their God is in their hearts; their feet do not slip. (niv)
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Psaumes 59:12
For the sins of their mouths, for the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride. For the curses and lies they utter, (niv)
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Colossiens 3:16
Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. (niv)
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Proverbes 12:18
The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. (niv)
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Jacques 3:5-8
Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark.The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and sea creatures are being tamed and have been tamed by mankind,but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. (niv)
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Psaumes 52:2-4
You who practice deceit, your tongue plots destruction; it is like a sharpened razor.You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking the truth.You love every harmful word, you deceitful tongue! (niv)
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Proverbes 10:20-21
The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked is of little value.The lips of the righteous nourish many, but fools die for lack of sense. (niv)
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Romains 3:13-14
“ Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.”“ The poison of vipers is on their lips.”“ Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.” (niv)
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Colossiens 4:6
Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. (niv)
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Psaumes 12:2-4
Everyone lies to their neighbor; they flatter with their lips but harbor deception in their hearts.May the Lord silence all flattering lips and every boastful tongue—those who say,“ By our tongues we will prevail; our own lips will defend us— who is lord over us?” (niv)
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Psaumes 40:8-10
I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.”I proclaim your saving acts in the great assembly; I do not seal my lips, Lord, as you know.I do not hide your righteousness in my heart; I speak of your faithfulness and your saving help. I do not conceal your love and your faithfulness from the great assembly. (niv)
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Psaumes 41:6-7
When one of them comes to see me, he speaks falsely, while his heart gathers slander; then he goes out and spreads it around.All my enemies whisper together against me; they imagine the worst for me, saying, (niv)
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Jérémie 9:2-5
Oh, that I had in the desert a lodging place for travelers, so that I might leave my people and go away from them; for they are all adulterers, a crowd of unfaithful people.“ They make ready their tongue like a bow, to shoot lies; it is not by truth that they triumph in the land. They go from one sin to another; they do not acknowledge me,” declares the Lord.“ Beware of your friends; do not trust anyone in your clan. For every one of them is a deceiver, and every friend a slanderer.Friend deceives friend, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning. (niv)
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Ephésiens 5:3-4
But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. (niv)
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Hébreux 8:10
This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. (niv)
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Actes 8:19-23
and said,“ Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”Peter answered:“ May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!You have no part or share in this ministry, because your heart is not right before God.Repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord in the hope that he may forgive you for having such a thought in your heart.For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin.” (niv)
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Ephésiens 5:19
speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, (niv)
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Psaumes 64:3-8
They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim cruel words like deadly arrows.They shoot from ambush at the innocent; they shoot suddenly, without fear.They encourage each other in evil plans, they talk about hiding their snares; they say,“ Who will see it?”They plot injustice and say,“ We have devised a perfect plan!” Surely the human mind and heart are cunning.But God will shoot them with his arrows; they will suddenly be struck down.He will turn their own tongues against them and bring them to ruin; all who see them will shake their heads in scorn. (niv)
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Psaumes 71:15-18
My mouth will tell of your righteous deeds, of your saving acts all day long— though I know not how to relate them all.I will come and proclaim your mighty acts, Sovereign Lord; I will proclaim your righteous deeds, yours alone.Since my youth, God, you have taught me, and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds.Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, my God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your mighty acts to all who are to come. (niv)
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Psaumes 140:5
The arrogant have hidden a snare for me; they have spread out the cords of their net and have set traps for me along my path. (niv)
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Proverbes 15:23
A person finds joy in giving an apt reply— and how good is a timely word! (niv)
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Psaumes 59:7
See what they spew from their mouths— the words from their lips are sharp as swords, and they think,“ Who can hear us?” (niv)
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Jude 1:15
to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” (niv)
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Ephésiens 3:8
Although I am less than the least of all the Lord’s people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the boundless riches of Christ, (niv)
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Proverbes 22:17-18
Pay attention and turn your ear to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach,for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips. (niv)
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2 Corinthiens 4 6-2 Corinthiens 4 7
For God, who said,“ Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. (niv)
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Actes 5:3
Then Peter said,“ Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? (niv)
