Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

Keep thy tongue from wickedness, And thy lips from speaking deceit:

New American Standard Bible

Keep your tongue from evil
And your lips from speaking deceit.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from deceitful speech.

International Standard Version

Then keep your tongue from doing evil and your lips from spreading lies.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


Keep your tongue from evil
And your lips from speaking deceit.

Bible in Basic English

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Watch thy tongue from evil; and thy lips from speaking deceit

King James 2000

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.

Modern King James verseion

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips, that they speak no guile.

NET Bible

Then make sure you don't speak evil words or use deceptive speech!

New Heart English Bible

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

Webster

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

World English Bible

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

Youngs Literal Translation

Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.

Context Readings

The Lord Delivers The Righteous

12 Who is the man that desireth life, Loving days, that he may see good? 13 Keep thy tongue from wickedness, And thy lips from speaking deceit: 14 Depart from wickedness and do good, Aim at well-being, and pursue it.


Cross References

1 Peter 2:22

Who did not, a sin, commit, neither was deceit found in his mouth, -

James 1:26

If any thinketh he is observant of religion, not curbing his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this one's, religious observance is, vain:

James 3:2

For, oft, are we stumbling, one and all: If anyone, in word, doth not stumble, the same, is a mature man, able to curb even the whole body.

Psalm 141:3

Set thou, O Yahweh, a watch at my mouth, Keep thou guard over the door of my lips.

Psalm 39:1

I said, to myself, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue, - I will put on my mouth a muzzle, So long as the lawless is before me.

Psalm 55:11

Engulfing ruin, is in her midst, And there depart not from her broadway, oppression and deceit.

1 Peter 2:1

Putting away, therefore, all vice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envyings and all detractions,

Proverbs 12:7

Overthrown are the lawless and they are not, but, the house of the righteous, shall stand.

Proverbs 12:19

A lip that is faithful, shall be firm to futurity, but, only for a twinkling, is the tongue that is false.

Proverbs 12:22

An abomination to Yahweh, are lips that are false, but, he that dealeth faithfully, is his delight.

Proverbs 13:3

He that watcheth his mouth, guardeth his soul, He that openeth wide his lips, it shall be his ruin.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life, are in the power of the tongue, and, its friends, shall eat its fruits.

Proverbs 19:9

A false witness, shall not be held innocent, and, he that uttereth lies, shall perish.

Proverbs 21:23

He that keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth, out of distresses, his soul.

Isaiah 63:8

Therefore he said - Surely my people, they are, Sons, they will not act falsely! So he became their saviour.

Matthew 12:35-37

The good man, out of the good treasure, putteth forth, good things; and, the evil man, out of the evil treasure, putteth forth, evil things.

Colossians 3:9

Be not guilty of falsehood one to another: having stript off the old man, together with his practices,

James 1:19

Ye know, my brethren beloved, - but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

James 3:5-10

So, also, the tongue, is, a little member, and yet, of great things, maketh boast. Lo! how small a fire, kindleth, how great a forest;

Revelation 14:4-5

These, are they, who with women, were not defiled, for they are, virgin. These, are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever he is going. These, were redeemed from mankind, as a firstfruit unto God and the Lamb;

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