James 1:26
If any man among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Psalm 34:13
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.
Psalm 141:3
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.
Galatians 6:3
For if a man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
James 1:22
But be you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
James 3:2-6
For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
1 Peter 3:10
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
Deuteronomy 11:16
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
Psalm 39:1-2
[To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.] I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked are before me.
Psalm 32:9
Be you not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, else they come not near unto you.
Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there lacks not sin: but he that refrains his lips is wise.
Proverbs 10:31
The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom: but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.
Proverbs 13:2-3
A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors feeds on violence.
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs 15:2
The tongue of the wise uses knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.
Proverbs 16:10
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresses not in judgment.
Proverbs 16:25
There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor that walks in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
Proverbs 21:26
He covets greedily all the day long: but the righteous gives and spares not.
Isaiah 1:13
Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Isaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
Malachi 3:14
You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked in mourning before the LORD of hosts?
Matthew 15:9
But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Mark 7:7
But in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Luke 8:18
Take heed therefore how you hear: for whosoever has, to him shall be given; and whosoever has not, from him shall be taken even that which he seems to have.
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
1 Corinthians 15:2
By which also you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:15
Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
Galatians 2:6
But of these who seemed to be somebody, (whatsoever they were, it makes no matter to me: God accepts no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somebody in conference added nothing to me:
Galatians 2:9
And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship; that we should go unto the Gentiles, and they unto the circumcision.
Galatians 3:4
Have you suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
Ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Ephesians 5:4
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not fitting: but rather giving of thanks.
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man.
James 1:19
Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:
James 2:20
But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?