Lips

Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment--a tongue of falsehood.

through him, then, we may offer up a sacrifice of praise always to God, that is, the fruit of lips, giving thanks to His name;

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

A fool delighteth not in understanding, But--in uncovering his heart.

Substance, gold, and a multitude of rubies, Yea, a precious vessel, <FI>are<Fi> lips of knowledge.

Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive, — read the full passage →

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.

An abomination to Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> lying lips, And stedfast doers <FI>are<Fi> his delight.

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

By David, in his changing his behaviour before Abimelech, and he driveth him away, and he goeth. I do bless Jehovah at all times, Continually His praise <FI>is<Fi> in my mouth.

A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

A faithful witness lieth not, And a false witness breatheth out lies.

for `he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips--not to speak guile;

Whoso is keeping his mouth and his tongue, Is keeping from adversities his soul.

A healed tongue <FI>is<Fi> a tree of life, And perverseness in it--a breach in the spirit.

Whoso uttereth faithfulness declareth righteousness, And a false witness--deceit.

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices, — read the full passage →

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips.

The making of treasures by a lying tongue, <FI>Is<Fi> a vanity driven away of those seeking death.

These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven <FI>are<Fi> abominations to His soul. — read the full passage →

My lips cry aloud when I sing praise to Thee, And my soul that Thou hast redeemed,

`And ye do not swear by My name to falsehood, or thou hast polluted the name of thy God; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

`Ye do not steal, nor feign, nor lie one against his fellow.

And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →

Withered hath grass, faded the flower, But a word of our God riseth for ever.

and he striketh against my mouth, and saith: `Lo, this hath stricken against thy lips, And turned aside is thine iniquity, And thy sin is covered.'

Death and life <FI>are<Fi> in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

A Prayer of David. Hear, O Jehovah, righteousness, attend my cry, Give ear <FI>to<Fi> my prayer, without lips of deceit.

While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

For then do I turn unto peoples a pure lip, To call all of them by the name of Jehovah, To serve Him <FI>with<Fi> one shoulder.

In the year of the death of king Uzziah--I see the Lord, sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and His train is filling the temple. — read the full passage →

In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips <FI>is<Fi> wise.

Because better <FI>is<Fi> Thy kindness than life, My lips do praise Thee.

The desire of his heart Thou gavest to him, And the request of his lips Thou hast not withheld. Selah.

Let the sayings of my mouth, And the meditation of my heart, Be for a pleasing thing before Thee, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer!

The produce of thy lips thou dost keep, and hast done <FI>it<Fi> , as thou hast vowed to Jehovah thy God; a free-will-offering, which thou hast spoken with thy mouth.

`Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.

if we may say--`we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.

and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

Even a fool keeping silence is reckoned wise, He who is shutting his lips intelligent!

A man of fury stirreth up contention, And the slow to anger appeaseth strife.

The lips of the righteous delight many, And fools for lack of heart die.

In the lips of the intelligent is wisdom found, And a rod <FI>is<Fi> for the back of him who is lacking understanding.

O Lord, my lips thou dost open, And my mouth declareth Thy praise.

As to doings of man, Through a word of Thy lips I have observed The paths of a destroyer;

Of the uprightness of my heart <FI>are<Fi> my sayings, And knowledge have my lips clearly spoken.

And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.

`Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but--those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain <FI>is<Fi> the religion;

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

A sepulchre opened <FI>is<Fi> their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps <FI>is<Fi> under their lips.

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →

Whoso is reproving a man afterwards findeth grace, More than a flatterer with the tongue.

The mouth of a fool <FI>is<Fi> ruin to him, And his lips <FI>are<Fi> the snare of his soul.

The heart of the wise causeth his mouth to act wisely, And by his lips he increaseth learning,

My lips do utter praise, For Thou dost teach me Thy statutes.

To the Overseer, on the octave. --A Psalm of David. Save, Jehovah, for the saintly hath failed, For the stedfast have ceased From the sons of men: — read the full passage →

My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.

Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,

wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.

he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;

But he answering said, `It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips--ruin to him!

Filled is my mouth <FI>with<Fi> Thy praise, All the day <FI>with<Fi> Thy beauty.

The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

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

in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth--the good news of your salvation--in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,

for all the law in one word is fulfilled--in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

So--the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, `I have not done iniquity.'

A lying tongue hateth its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth worketh an overthrow!

O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!

For opened were my lips, And my mouth spake in my distress:

I have proclaimed tidings of righteousness In the great assembly, lo, my lips I restrain not, O Jehovah, Thou hast known.

To the Overseer, on `The Hind of the Morning.' --A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation, The words of my roaring? — read the full passage →

Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things,

Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.

and Hannah, she is speaking to her heart, only her lips are moving, and her voice is not heard, and Eli reckoneth her to be drunken.

`And He doth humble thee, and cause thee to hunger and doth cause thee to eat the manna (which thou hast not known, even thy fathers have not known), in order to cause thee to know that not by bread alone doth man live, but by every produce of the mouth of Jehovah man doth live.

`And if her husband doth certainly break them in the day of his hearing, none of the outgoing of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, is established--her husband hath broken them--and Jehovah is propitious to her.

`And if she be at all to a husband, and her vows <FI>are<Fi> on her, or a wrongful utterance <FI>on<Fi> her lips, which she hath bound on her soul,

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!