Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling lies. New Living Translation Then keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from telling lies! English Standard Version Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Berean Standard Bible Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech. King James Bible Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. New King James Version Keep your tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking deceit. New American Standard Bible Keep your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit. NASB 1995 Keep your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit. NASB 1977 Keep your tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking deceit. Legacy Standard Bible Guard your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit. Amplified Bible Keep your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit. Christian Standard Bible Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech. Holman Christian Standard Bible Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech. American Standard Version Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Keep your tongue from evil and your lips will not speak deceit. Brenton Septuagint Translation Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Contemporary English Version Then don't say cruel things and don't tell lies. Douay-Rheims Bible Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. English Revised Version Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. GOD'S WORD® Translation Keep your tongue from saying evil things and your lips from speaking deceitful things. Good News Translation Then keep from speaking evil and from telling lies. International Standard Version Then keep your tongue from doing evil and your lips from spreading lies. JPS Tanakh 1917 Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile. Literal Standard Version Keep your tongue from evil, | And your lips from speaking deceit. Majority Standard Bible Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech. New American Bible Keep your tongue from evil, your lips from speaking lies. NET Bible Then make sure you don't speak evil words or use deceptive speech! New Revised Standard Version Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit. New Heart English Bible Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies. Webster's Bible Translation Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. World English Bible Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies. Young's Literal Translation Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit. Additional Translations ... Context Taste and See that the LORD is Good…12Who is the man who delights in life, who desires to see good days? 13Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech. 14Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.… Cross References James 1:26 If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless. 1 Peter 2:22 "He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth." 1 Peter 3:10 For, "Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech. Psalm 39:1 I said, "I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present." Psalm 141:3 Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips. Proverbs 13:3 He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin. Treasury of Scripture Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking guile. Keep Psalm 39:1 To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. 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. Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. Matthew 12:35-37 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things… speaking Psalm 55:11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. Proverbs 12:7,19,22 The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand… Proverbs 19:9 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish. Jump to Previous Deceit Evil Guile Lips Speaking Tongue WordsJump to Next Deceit Evil Guile Lips Speaking Tongue WordsPsalm 34 1. David praises God, and exhorts others thereto by his experience8. They are blessed who trust in God 11. He exhorts to the fear of God 15. The privileges of the righteous Verse 13. - Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. If the end be happiness, the means will be right moral conduct; and, first of all, right government of the tongue. Sins of the tongue are numerous, and abundantly noted in the Psalms (Psalm 5:9; Psalm 10:7; Psalm 12:3; Psalm 15:3; Psalm 50:19; Psalm 57:4; Psalm 73:8, 9, etc.). They are more difficult to avoid than any others; they cling closer to us; they are scarcely ever wholly laid aside. "If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body" (James 3:2). The meek Moses "spake unadvisedly with his lips" (Psalm 106:33). Job "darkened counsel by words without knowledge "(Job 38:2). St. Peter's words on one occasion drew upon him the rebuke, "Get thee behind me, Satan" (Matthew 16:23). Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Keepנְצֹ֣ר (nə·ṣōr) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 5341: To watch, guard, keep your tongue לְשׁוֹנְךָ֣ (lə·šō·wn·ḵā) Noun - common singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 3956: The tongue from evil מֵרָ֑ע (mê·rā‘) Preposition-m | Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 7451: Bad, evil and your lips וּ֝שְׂפָתֶ֗יךָ (ū·śə·p̄ā·ṯe·ḵā) Conjunctive waw | Noun - fdc | second person masculine singular Strong's 8193: The lip, language, a margin from deceitful מִרְמָֽה׃ (mir·māh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 4820: Deceit, treachery speech. מִדַּבֵּ֥ר (mid·dab·bêr) Preposition-m | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue Links Psalm 34:13 NIVPsalm 34:13 NLT Psalm 34:13 ESV Psalm 34:13 NASB Psalm 34:13 KJV Psalm 34:13 BibleApps.com Psalm 34:13 Biblia Paralela Psalm 34:13 Chinese Bible Psalm 34:13 French Bible Psalm 34:13 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 34:13 Keep your tongue from evil and your (Psalm Ps Psa.) |
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