Taming Your Tongue

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

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;

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

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;

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

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one <FI>is<Fi> a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body; — read the full passage →

A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.

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

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

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;

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

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

not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.'

out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

`Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad, for from the fruit is the tree known. — read the full passage →

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

of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome--gentle, showing all meekness to all men,

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

Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.

Jehovah doth fight for you, and ye keep silent.'

The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh judgment.

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, — read the full passage →

Without wood is fire going out, And without a tale-bearer, contention ceaseth,

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one <FI>is<Fi> a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

your word always in grace--with salt being seasoned--to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.

To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. --A Psalm of David. I have said, `I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked <FI>is<Fi> before me.'

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? — read the full passage →

so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!

and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, <FI>it is<Fi> an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

A time to rend, And a time to sew. A time to be silent, And a time to speak.

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

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!

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

doth the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter?

The heart of the righteous meditateth to answer, And the mouth of the wicked uttereth evil things.

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.

Her mouth she hath opened in wisdom, And the law of kindness <FI>is<Fi> on her tongue.

and the tongue <FI>is<Fi> a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

One acquainted with knowledge is sparing his words, And the cool of temper <FI>is<Fi> a man of understanding. — read the full passage →

`Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things--being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.

No weapon formed against thee prospereth, And every tongue rising against thee, In judgment thou condemnest. This <FI>is<Fi> the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah, And their righteousness from me, an affirmation of Jehovah!

Then Jesus spake to the multitudes, and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive,

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God;

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

Are ye ignorant, brethren--for to those knowing law I speak--that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth? — read the full passage →

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

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

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

And my tongue uttereth Thy righteousness, All the day Thy praise!

`And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

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

The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And the tongue of frowardness is cut out.

Who said, `By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips <FI>are<Fi> our own; who <FI>is<Fi> lord over us?'

but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man;

`And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment; — read the full passage →

For there is not a word in my tongue, Lo, O Jehovah, Thou hast known it all!

My lips do utter praise, For Thou dost teach me Thy statutes. — read the full passage →

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

And I, having come unto you, brethren, came--not in superiority of discourse or wisdom--declaring to you the testimony of God, — read the full passage →

Thou hast seen a man hasty in his words! More hope of a fool than of him.

By long-suffering is a ruler persuaded, And a soft tongue breaketh a bone.

Fear of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

And after the ceasing of the tumult, Paul having called near the disciples, and having embraced <FI>them<Fi> , went forth to go on to Macedonia; — read the full passage →

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice, in my meditation, From the fear of an enemy Thou keepest my life, — read the full passage →

He hath not slandered by his tongue, He hath not done to his friend evil; And reproach he hath not lifted up Against his neighbour.

Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit. — read the full passage →

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.'

With the mouth a hypocrite corrupteth his friend, And by knowledge the righteous are drawn out.

`And those upon the rock: They who, when they may hear, with joy do receive the word, and these have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of temptation fall away. — read the full passage →

Who <FI>is<Fi> wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,

A north wind bringeth forth rain, And a secret tongue--indignant faces.

Lo, truth Thou hast desired in the inward parts, And in the hidden part Wisdom Thou causest me to know.

lo, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and their whole body we turn about;

A city broken down without walls, <FI>Is<Fi> a man without restraint over his spirit!

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

Laying hold on the ears of a dog, <FI>Is<Fi> a passer-by making himself wrath for strife not his own. — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

in which also ye--ye did walk once, when ye lived in them; — read the full passage →

A Psalm of David. Jehovah, who doth sojourn in Thy tent? Who doth dwell in Thy holy hill? — read the full passage →

Joy <FI>is<Fi> to a man in the answer of his mouth, And a word in its season--how good!

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

Sayings of pleasantness <FI>are<Fi> a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.

And gathered together unto him are the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, having come from Jerusalem, — read the full passage →

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And the roller of a stone, to him it turneth. — read the full passage →

He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls;

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers, — read the full passage →

Let a man so reckon us as officers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God, — read the full passage →

Whoso uttereth faithfulness declareth righteousness, And a false witness--deceit. — read the full passage →

in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'