Psalms 32:9

9 aBe not like a horse or a mule, without understanding,
which must be curbed with bbit and bridle,
or it will not stay near you.

Psalms 34:13

13 cKeep your tongue from evil
and your lips from dspeaking deceit.

Psalms 39:1-2

What Is the Measure of My Days?

To the choirmaster: to eJeduthun. A Psalm of David.

1 I said, “I will fguard my ways,
that I gmay not sin with my tongue;
I will hguard my mouth with a muzzle,
so long as the wicked are in my presence.”
2I was imute and silent;
I held my peace to no avail,
and my distress grew worse.

Psalms 141:3

3 jSet a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;
kkeep watch over the door of my lips!

Proverbs 10:19

19 lWhen words are many, transgression is not lacking,
mbut whoever restrains his lips is prudent.

Proverbs 10:31

31 nThe mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom,
but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

Proverbs 13:2-3

2From the fruit of his mouth a man oeats what is good,
but the desire of the treacherous pis for violence.
3 qWhoever guards his mouth preserves his life;
rhe who opens wide his lips scomes to ruin.

Proverbs 15:2

2The tongue of the wise commends knowledge,
but tthe mouths of fools pour out folly.

James 1:19

Hearing and Doing the Word

19 uKnow this, my beloved brothers: let every person vbe quick to hear, wslow to speak, xslow to anger;

James 3:2-6

2For ywe all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, zhe is a perfect man, aaable also to bridle his whole body. 3If we put abbits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. 4Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. 5So also the tongue is a small member, yet acit boasts of great things.

How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!
6And adthe tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, aestaining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life,
Or wheel of birth
and set on fire by hell.
Greek Gehenna
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