Psalm 140:3

Catholic Public Domain Version

O Lord, station a guard over my mouth and a door enclosing my lips.

Cross References

Genesis 3:13

And the Lord God said to the woman, "Why have you done this?" And she responded, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

Psalm 57:4

Sinners have become foreigners from the womb; they have gone astray from conception. They have been speaking falsehoods.

Psalm 58:4

For behold, they have seized my soul. The strong have rushed upon me.

Psalm 59:7

Save me with your right hand, and hear me.

Proverbs 12:18

He who makes promises is also jabbed, as if with a sword, in conscience. But the tongue of the wise is reasonable.

Proverbs 23:32

but in the end, it will bite like a snake, and it will spread poison like a king of snakes.

Proverbs 6:14

With a depraved heart he devises evil, and at all times he sows conflict.

Isaiah 59:13

sinning and lying against the Lord. And we have turned away, not so as to go after our God, and so that we were speaking calumny and transgression. We have conceived, and spoken from the heart, words of falsehood.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they have bent their tongue, like a bow, to send forth lies and not the truth. They have been strengthened upon the earth. And they have gone from one evil to another. But they have not known me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:5

And a man will deride his brother, and they will not speak the truth. For they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they have labored to commit iniquity.

Lamentations 3:62

SIN. The lips of those who rise up against me, and their meditations, are against me all day long.

Matthew 12:34

Progeny of vipers, how are you able to speak good things while you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid lest, as the serpent led astray Eve by his cleverness, so your minds might be corrupted and might fall away from the simplicity which is in Christ.