Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking guile.
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.
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honor all the day.
Trust you not in a friend, put you not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth from her that lies in your bosom.
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.
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.