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Proverbs 21:23
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
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Proverbs 18:21
Death and life[ are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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Proverbs 18:7
A fool’s mouth[ is] his destruction, and his lips[ are] the snare of his soul.
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James 3:2-12
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same[ is] a perfect man,[ and] able also to bridle the whole body.Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.Behold also the ships, which though[ they be] so great, and[ are] driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!And the tongue[ is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:But the tongue can no man tame;[ it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet[ water] and bitter?Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so[ can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
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Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips[ is] wise.
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Psalms 39:1
I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
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Proverbs 12:13
The wicked is snared by the transgression of[ his] lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
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Proverbs 20:19
He that goeth about[ as] a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
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Matthew 12:36-37
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
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James 1:26
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion[ is] vain.