Psa 34:13, Pro 13:3, Jam 1:26, 3:5-6, 1Pe 3:10 | ESV | STEP | Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit .

Psalms 34:13

13 ^aKeep your tongue from evil
and 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

26 If 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

5 So 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! 6 And 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

10 For

^m“Whoever desires to love life
and see good days,
let him keep his tongue from evil
and his lips from speaking deceit;