Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile.
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;
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 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 is the man that desires life, and loves days, that he may see good? 13 Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile. 14 Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
1 Peter 2:22
He who did no sin, nor was guile found in His mouth,
James 1:26
If anyone thinks to be religious among you, yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is vain.
James 3:2
For in many things we all offend. If anyone does not offend in word, the same is a full-grown man, able also to bridle the whole body.
Psalm 141:3
Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Psalm 39:1
To the Chief Musician, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways so that I do not sin with my tongue; I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked are before me.
Psalm 55:11
Covetings are in her midst; oppression and guile will not depart from her streets.
1 Peter 2:1
Therefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings, and all evil speakings,
Proverbs 12:7
The wicked are overthrown, and are gone; but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Proverbs 12:19
The lips of truth shall be established forever, but only while I wink is a lying tongue.
Proverbs 12:22
Lying lips are hateful to Jehovah, but those who deal truly are His delight.
Proverbs 13:3
He who keeps his mouth keeps his life; he who opens his lips wide, it is ruin to him.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.
Proverbs 19:9
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and one speaking lies shall perish.
Proverbs 21:23
Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
Isaiah 63:8
For He said, Surely they are My people, sons that will not lie; so He was their Savior.
Matthew 12:35-37
A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings out good things; and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings out evil things.
Colossians 3:9
Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his deeds
James 1:19
Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
James 3:5-10
Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold how little a fire kindles how large a forest!
Revelation 14:4-5
These are those who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, as a firstfruit to God and to the Lamb.