Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.
That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.
[To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.] 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 are before me.
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
The lip of truth shall be established forever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction.
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.
Whosoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Savior.
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.
Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds;
Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:
If any man among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Therefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking,
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: