The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
A man has joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
[To the Chief Musician upon shoshannim, for the Sons of Korah, a maschil, a song of loves.] My heart is overflowing with a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made concerning the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready scribe.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scoffer is an abomination to men.
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the boundary of the widow.
He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house; but he that hates bribes shall live.
Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
They that are of a perverse heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.