Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Watch thy tongue from evil; and thy lips from speaking deceit
New American Standard Bible
And your lips from speaking
King James Version
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Holman Bible
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;
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.
Themes
Evil » Speech evil speaking » The tongue to be restrained
Slander » Saints » Should keep their tongue from
Slander » Saints should keep their tongues from
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 34:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Lord Delivers The Righteous
12 Who the man desiring life, loving days, to see good? 13 Watch thy tongue from evil; and thy lips from speaking deceit 14 Turn away from evil, and do good; seek peace and pursue it
Phrases
Names
Cross References
1 Peter 2:22
Who did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth:
James 1:26
If any among you seem to be religious, bridling not his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one vain.
James 3:2
For in many things we all stumble. If any stumble not in word, this a perfect man, able to govern by a bridle also the whole body.
Psalm 141:3
Set, O Jehovah, a watch to my mouth; guard over the door of my lips.
Psalm 39:1
To the overseer, to Jeduthun: chanting of David. I said, I will watch my way from sinning with my tongue: I will watch for my mouth with a muzzle while yet the unjust one is before me.
Psalm 55:11
Mischief in her midst: oppression and deceit will not depart from her wide place.
1 Peter 2:1
Therefore setting aside all wickedness, and all artifice, and dissimulation; and envies, and all calumnies,
Proverbs 12:7
The unjust are overthrown, and they are not: and the house of the just shall stand.
Proverbs 12:19
The lip of truth shall be prepared forever: and the tongue of falsehood while I shall wink.
Proverbs 12:22
Lips of falsehood an abomination of Jehovah: and they doing faithfulness his delight
Proverbs 13:3
He guarding his mouth, watched his soul: he opening wide his lips, destruction to him.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life in the hand of the tongue: and they loving it shall eat its fruit
Proverbs 19:9
A witness of falsehoods shall not be unpunished, and he breathing out lies shall perish.
Proverbs 21:23
He watching his mouth and his tongue watches his soul from straits.
Isaiah 63:8
And he will say, Surely they my people, sons that will not lie: and he will be to them for Saviour.
Matthew 12:35-37
The good man, out of the good treasure of the heart, casts forth good things: and the evil man, out of the evil treasure, casts forth evil things.
Colossians 3:9
Lie not to one another, having put off the old man with big deeds;
James 1:19
Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:
James 3:5-10
So also the tongue is a small member, and vaunts itself. Behold, how great a wood a little fire inflames
Revelation 14:4-5
There are they who were not contaminated by women; for they are virgins. These are they following the Lamb wherever he should lead. These were purchased from men, first fruits to God and the Lamb.