Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Watch thy tongue from evil; 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;

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 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

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.

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