¹² Who is the man that is desiring life? Loving days to see good? ¹³ Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit. ¹⁴ Turn aside from evil and do good, Seek peace and pursue it.

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1 Peter 2:22

who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in his mouth,

James 1:26

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain is the religion;

James 3:2

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

Psalm 141:3

Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.

Psalm 39:1

To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. I have said, 'I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked is before me.'

Psalm 55:11

Mischiefs are in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.

1 Peter 2:1

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

Proverbs 12:7

Overthrow the wicked, and they are not, And the house of the righteous standeth.

Proverbs 12:19

The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment -- a tongue of falsehood.

Proverbs 12:22

An abomination to Jehovah are lying lips, And stedfast doers are his delight.

Proverbs 13:3

Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips -- ruin to him!

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

Proverbs 19:9

A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.

Proverbs 21:23

Whoso is keeping his mouth and his tongue, Is keeping from adversities his soul.

Isaiah 63:8

And He saith, Only My people they are, Sons -- they lie not, and He is to them for a saviour.

Matthew 12:35-37

The good man out of the good treasure of the heart doth put forth the good things, and the evil man out of the evil treasure doth put forth evil things.

Colossians 3:9

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

James 1:19

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

James 3:5-10

so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!

these are they who with women were not defiled, for they are virgin; these are they who are following the Lamb whithersoever he may go; these were bought from among men -- a first-fruit to God and to the Lamb --

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