Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking guile.
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 the door of my lips.
I said, I will be careful of my ways, that I do not sin with my tongue: I will restrain my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
The lips of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD: but those who 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 those who love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall perish.
He who watches 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.
Do not lie to one 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 anyone among you seems to be religious, and does not control his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is without benefit.
For in many things we all offend. If anyone does not offend in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to control the whole body.
Therefore laying aside all malice, and all deceit, and hypocrisy, and envy, and all evil speaking,
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: