James 1:26
If anyone thinks he is religious, [although he] does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion [is] worthless.
Psalm 34:13
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.
Psalm 141:3
Set a guard, O Yahweh, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.
Galatians 6:3
For if anyone thinks he is something [although he] is nothing, he is deceiving himself.
James 1:22
But be doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,
James 3:2-6
For we all stumble [in] many [ways]. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he [is] a perfect individual, able to hold in check his whole body also.
1 Peter 3:10
For "The one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and [his] lips must not speak deceit.
Deuteronomy 11:16
{Take care} so that your heart is not easily deceived, and you turn away, and you serve other gods, and you bow down to them.
Psalm 39:1-2
I said, "I will guard my ways {that I may not sin} with my tongue. I will keep a muzzle over my mouth as long as [the] wicked [are] before me."
Psalm 32:9
Do not be like a horse [or] like a mule, without understanding; [that needs] his tackle--bridle and rein--for restraint [or he would not] come near you.
Proverbs 10:19
In many words, transgression is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is prudent.
Proverbs 10:31
The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but a tongue of perversity will be cut off.
Proverbs 13:2-3
From the fruit of the mouth of a man, he shall eat what is good, but the desire of the treacherous, wrongdoing.
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way [that seems] upright {to} a man, but its end [is] the way of death.
Proverbs 15:2
The tongue of the wise will dispense knowledge, but the mouth of fools will pour out folly.
Proverbs 16:10
A decision is upon the lips of a king; in judgment his mouth will not sin.
Proverbs 16:25
There is a way [that seems] upright {to} a man, but its end [is] the way of death.
Proverbs 19:1
Better a poor person walking in integrity than one who is perverse {in his speech} and is a fool.
Proverbs 21:26
{All day} he craves a craving, but the righteous will give and not hold back.
Isaiah 1:13
You must not {continue} to bring offerings of futility, incense--it [is] an abomination to me; new moon and Sabbath, [the] calling of a convocation-- I cannot endure iniquity with [solemn] assembly.
Isaiah 44:20
[He] feeds [on] ashes; a {deceived mind} misleads him. And he cannot save {himself}, and he cannot say, "Is [this] not an illusion in my right hand?"
Malachi 3:14
You have said, '[It is] useless to serve God! What [is the] gain if we keep his requirements, and if we walk as mourners {before} Yahweh of hosts?
Matthew 15:9
and they worship me in vain, teaching [as] doctrines the commandments of men.'"
Mark 7:7
And they worship me in vain, teaching [as] doctrines the commandments of men.'
Luke 8:18
Therefore consider how you listen, for whoever has, to him [more] will be given, and whoever does not have, even what he thinks [that he] has will be taken away from him."
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks [himself] to be wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, in order that he may become wise.
1 Corinthians 15:2
by which you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the message I proclaimed to you, unless you believed to no purpose.
1 Corinthians 15:15
And also we are found [to be] false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if after all, then, the dead are not raised.
Galatians 2:6
But from those {who were influential} (whatever they were, [it makes] no difference to me, {God does not show partiality})--for those who were influential added nothing to me.
Galatians 2:9
and [when] James and Cephas and John--those thought to be pillars--acknowledged the grace given to me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right [hand] of fellowship, in order that we [should go] to the Gentiles and they to the circumcision.
Galatians 3:4
Have you suffered so many [things] for nothing--if indeed also [it was] for nothing?
Ephesians 4:29
{No rotten word must proceed} from your mouth, but only something good for the building up of the need, in order that it may give grace to those who hear,
Ephesians 5:4
and obscenity, and foolish talk, or coarse jesting (which [are] not proper), but rather thanksgiving.
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech always [be] with grace, seasoned with salt, so that [you] may know how it is necessary for you to answer each one.
James 1:19
Understand [this], my dear brothers: every person must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
James 2:20
But do you want to know, O foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?