Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Bible References
Keep
Psalm 39:1
{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 muzzle, while the wicked is before me.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Matthew 12:35
The good man out of the good treasure brings forth good things; and the wicked man out of the wicked treasure brings forth wicked things.
James 1:19
So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
James 3:2
For we all often offend. If any one offend not in word, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body too.
Speaking
Psalm 55:11
Perversities are in the midst thereof; and oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.
Proverbs 12:7
Overthrow the wicked, and they are no more; but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Proverbs 19:9
A false witness shall not be held innocent, and he that uttereth lies shall perish.
Isaiah 63:8
And he said, They are indeed my people, children that will not lie; and he became their Saviour.
Colossians 3:9
Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his deeds,
1 Peter 2:1
Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings,
Revelation 14:4
These are they who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins: these are they who follow the Lamb wheresoever it goes. These have been bought from men as first-fruits to God and to the Lamb: