Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Psalms 141:3Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Proverbs 10:19In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Proverbs 12:18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 15:1A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs 15:4A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Proverbs 18:21Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Proverbs 21:23Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Matthew 12:34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Matthew 15:11Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Ephesians 4:29Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
James 1:26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
James 3:1My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
James 3:5Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
James 3:8But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
1 Peter 3:10For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: