Psalm 34:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹³ Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile.

Common English Bible

¹³ Then you must keep your tongue from evil and keep your lips from speaking lies!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ But as for me, when they were harassing me, I was clothed with haircloth. I humbled my soul with fasting, and my prayer will become my sinews.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ But as for me, when they were troublesome to me, I was clothed with haircloth. I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer shall be turned into my bosom.

Psalm 34:13 Cross References

Job 15:13

that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

Psalm 141:3

Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord, keep watch over the door of my lips!

Psalm 39:1

I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will bridle my mouth, so long as the wicked are in my presence.”

Psalm 55:11

ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its market place.

Proverbs 12:19

Truthful lips endure for ever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Proverbs 12:22

Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.

Proverbs 12:7

The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.

Proverbs 13:3

He who guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Proverbs 19:9

A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who utters lies will perish.

Proverbs 21:23

He who keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.

Isaiah 63:8

For he said, Surely they are my people, sons who will not deal falsely; and he became their Savior.

Amos 5:14

Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.

Colossians 3:9

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old nature with its practices

James 1:19

Know this, my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

James 1:26

If any one thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this man's religion is vain.

James 3:2

For we all make many mistakes, and if any one makes no mistakes in what he says he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

1 Peter 2:1

So put away all malice and all guile and insincerity and envy and all slander.

1 Peter 2:22

He committed no sin; no guile was found on his lips.