Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.
So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.
Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!
Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.
He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence.”
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.
The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb, and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are blameless.
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.
ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace.
For he said, “Surely they are my people, children who will not deal falsely.” And he became their Savior.
The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.
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