Proverbs 13:3

American King James Version (1999)

He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

Cross References

Psalm 141:3

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

Psalm 34:13

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking guile.

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.

Proverbs 10:14

Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

Proverbs 10:19

In the multitude of words there wants not sin: but he that refrains his lips is wise.

Proverbs 10:8

The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

Proverbs 12:13

The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.

Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

Proverbs 14:3

In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

Proverbs 18:21

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

Proverbs 18:7

A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

Proverbs 20:19

He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips.

Proverbs 21:23

Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

James 1:26

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

Judges 16:11

And he said to her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.

Judges 16:17

That he told her all his heart, and said to her, There has not come a razor on my head; for I have been a Nazarite to God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.