Psalms 39:1

What Is the Measure of My Days?

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

1 I said, “I will bguard my ways,
that I cmay not sin with my tongue;
I will dguard my mouth with a muzzle,
so long as the wicked are in my presence.”

Proverbs 17:27-28

27Whoever erestrains his words has knowledge,
and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
28Even a fool fwho keeps silent is considered wise;
when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

James 1:19

Hearing and Doing the Word

19 gKnow this, my beloved brothers: let every person hbe quick to hear, islow to speak, jslow to anger;

James 3:2

2For kwe all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, lhe is a perfect man, mable also to bridle his whole body.
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