Psalm 34:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 thou turnest thy spirit against God, And lettest such words go out of thy mouth.

Psalm 141:3

Set a watch, O LORD, before 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 bridle, While the wicked is before me.

Psalm 55:11

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from her streets.

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 an abomination to the LORD: But they that deal truly are his delight.

Proverbs 12:7

The wicked are overthrown, and are not: But the house of the righteous shall stand.

Proverbs 13:3

He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his life: But he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Proverbs 19:9

A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that uttereth lies shall perish.

Proverbs 21:23

Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue Keepeth his soul from troubles.

Isaiah 63:8

For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not deal falsely: so he was their saviour.

Amos 5:14

Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye say.

Colossians 3:9

lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,

James 1:19

Ye know this, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

James 1:26

If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is vain.

James 3:2

For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

1 Peter 2:1

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

1 Peter 2:22

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