Lips

Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →

I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; — read the full passage →

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: — read the full passage →

My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.

And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.

Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent.

In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. — read the full passage →

In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.

Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the Lord thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.

But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

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.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: — read the full passage →

He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.

My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.

Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. — read the full passage →

My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? — read the full passage →

The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the Lord shall forgive her.

And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.