mCited from Ps. 34:12-16
Psalms 34:13
13 aKeep your tongue from eviland your lips from bspeaking deceit.
Proverbs 13:3
3 cWhoever guards his mouth preserves his life;dhe who opens wide his lips ecomes to ruin.
James 1:26
26If anyone thinks he is religious fand does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s greligion is worthless.James 3:5-6
5So also the tongue is a small member, yet hit boasts of great things.How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6And ithe tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, jstaining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, ▼
▼Or wheel of birth
and set on fire by hell. ▼▼Greek Gehenna
1 Peter 3:10
10Form“Whoever desires to love life
and see good days,
let him keep his tongue from evil
and his lips from speaking deceit;
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