Lips

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.

Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

There is gold and abundance of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment. — read the full passage →

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

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.

For, “He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, — read the full passage →

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →

My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you!

“‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

“‘You shall not steal. “‘You shall not lie. “‘You shall not deceive one another.

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

The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”

He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.

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

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

You have given him his heart’s desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

You shall observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to Yahweh your God as a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

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

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.

As for the works of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.

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

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

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

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips”;

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.

Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes.

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

surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honor all the day.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

“So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.

I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? — read the full passage →

May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.

He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.

But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has made them void. Yahweh will forgive her.

“If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul,

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.