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When you pray do not go on babbling endlessly as the pagans… Matthew 6:7

When you pray do not go on babbling endlessly as the pagans do, for they believe that they are more likely to be heard because of their many words.
Matthew 6:7 prayer thoughts
Pleasing words are like a honeycomb,
sweet to the soul and affording health to the body.
Proverbs 16:24 gentleness soul food

Give thanks to the Lord, invoke his name;
proclaim his deeds among the peoples.
Psalm 105:1 evangelism worship praise
So shall my word be
that issues forth from my mouth.
It will not return to me unfulfilled,
but it will accomplish my purpose
and achieve what I sent it forth to do.
Isaiah 55:11 Word of God reliability fruitfulness
A fool takes no pleasure in understanding
but only delights in expressing his own opinions.
Proverbs 18:2 wisdom selfishness
Deliver me, O Lord, from lying lips
and from deceitful tongues.
Psalm 120:2 redeemer soul lying
With his mouth the godless man seeks to ruin his neighbor,
but knowledge enables the righteous to be delivered.
Proverbs 11:9 righteousness wisdom gossip
Let the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart
find favor in your sight,
O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.
Psalm 19:15 prayer heart
The lips of a fool cause strife,
and his mouth provokes a flogging.
Proverbs 18:6 wisdom
Diligent labor always yields profit,
but idle conversation only leads to poverty.
Proverbs 14:23 reliability encouragement poverty
If in speaking I use human tongues
and angelic as well,
but do not have love,
I am nothing more than a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:1 love angels
Anxiety in the human heart weighs it down,
but a kind word makes it glad.
Proverbs 12:25 worrying heart
The lips of the righteous utter words of kindness,
but the mouth of the wicked knows only how to pervert.
Proverbs 10:32 truth righteousness lying
Then keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from telling lies.
Psalm 34:14 evil truth lying
And whatever you do in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Colossians 3:17 gratitude following work
Turn away from the mouth that deceives
and keep your distance from lips that mislead.
Proverbs 4:24 truth lying
It is honorable to avoid strife,
but every fool is quarrelsome.
Proverbs 20:3 peace anger
Take no part in the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather seek to expose them.
For it is shameful even to speak of what deeds people do in secret.
Ephesians 5:11-12 sin idols fruitfulness
The tongue of the just man is like pure silver;
the heart of the wicked is without worth.
Proverbs 10:20 valuable righteousness
A word is not even on my tongue
and you, O Lord, are completely aware of it.
Psalm 139:4 almighty understanding
As long as I remained silent,
my body wasted away
as the result of my groaning throughout the day.
Psalm 32:3 sin confession sickness
Lying lips conceal hatred,
and anyone who slanders another is a fool.
Proverbs 10:18 gossip lying
If anyone thinks that he is religious but does not restrain his tongue, he is deceiving himself, and his religion is worthless.
James 1:26
Speak out and pronounce righteous judgments;
defend the rights of the wretched and the poor.
Proverbs 31:9 righteousness giving widows
For one believes in the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved.
Romans 10:10 faith salvation acknowledging