Parallel Verses

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.

The Emphasized Bible

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

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 Lamed Who is the man that desires life and loves many days that he may see good? 13 Keep your tongue from evil
And your lips from speaking deceit.
14 Nun Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.


Cross References

1 Peter 2:22

who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth,

James 1:26

If anyone among you thinks to be religious and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, his religion is vain.

James 3:2

For we all offend in many things. If any man offends not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to govern the whole body with restraint.

Psalm 141:3

Set a watch, O LORD, upon my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

Psalm 39:1

I said, I will take heed to my ways that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bit while the wicked is against me.

Psalm 55:11

Wickedness is in the midst thereof; deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

1 Peter 2:1

Having therefore left all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envies and all murmurings,

Proverbs 12:7

God shall overthrow the wicked, and they shall not be any longer, but the house of the righteous shall remain.

Proverbs 12:19

The lip of truth shall be established for ever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Proverbs 12:22

Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but the workers of the truth are his delight.

Proverbs 13:3

He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens his lips often shall have calamity.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those that love it shall eat its fruit.

Proverbs 19:9

The false witness shall not go unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall perish.

Proverbs 21:23

Whosoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Isaiah 63:8

For he said, Surely they are my people, sons that do not lie: and he was their Saviour.

Matthew 12:35-37

The good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things, and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.

Colossians 3:9

Lie not one to another, putting off the old man with his deeds

James 1:19

Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

James 3:5-10

In the same manner, the tongue is a very small member and boasts of great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles!

Revelation 14:4-5

These are those who are not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These are redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

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