Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking guile.
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
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.
Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds;
Why, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
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.
He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction.
Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
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.
Why laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, all evil speakings,
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall perish.
Wickedness is in the middle thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Savior.
The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken.