Psalm 34:13

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Summary

Psalm 34:13

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

Keep

James 3:2

Speaking

Revelation 14:4

Bible References

Keep

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.'

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

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.

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

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;

Speaking

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 --