Psalms 39:1
I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”
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Psalms 39:1
I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”
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Psalms 39:2
I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
Psalms 39:3
My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:
Psalms 39:4
“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.
Psalms 39:5
Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.
Psalms 39:6
“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
Psalms 39:8
Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.
Psalms 39:9
I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.
Psalms 39:10
Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
Psalms 39:11
When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.
Psalms 39:12
“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
Job 2:10
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.
Job 40:4
“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
Psalms 73:15
If I had said, “I will speak thus”, behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
Proverbs 23:2
put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.
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Psalms 141:3
Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
James 3:2
For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.
James 1:26
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.
Proverbs 13:3
He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
James 1:19
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
James 3:8
but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
Matthew 12:34
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
Matthew 12:35
The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.
Matthew 12:36
I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
Matthew 12:37
For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Job 6:24
“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.
Psalms 32:9
Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.
Psalms 106:33
because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.
Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.
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Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
James 3:3
Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.
James 3:4
Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.
James 3:5
So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
Psalms 34:13
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.
Proverbs 21:23
Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
James 3:7
For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;
Proverbs 17:27
He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.
Proverbs 29:11
A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.
James 3:9
With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.
James 3:10
Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
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Psalms 38:13
But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
Psalms 38:14
Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Amos 5:13
Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
Ecclesiastes 3:7
a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
Micah 7:5
Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!
Matthew 7:6
“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
Proverbs 9:7
One who corrects a mocker invites insult. One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.
Proverbs 26:4
Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.
Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.
Matthew 27:14
He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.
Acts 8:32
Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.
1 Peter 2:23
When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.
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Psalms 17:3
You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
Psalms 17:4
As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
Acts 11:23
who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
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1 Kings 2:4
Then Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’
Deuteronomy 4:9
Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—
Proverbs 4:26
Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
Proverbs 4:27
Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.
Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
Deuteronomy 4:15
Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,
2 Kings 10:31
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.
Psalms 119:9
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
Proverbs 4:23
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
Hebrews 12:15
looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,
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1 Chronicles 16:41
and with them Heman and Jeduthun and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because his loving kindness endures forever;
1 Chronicles 16:42
and with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God, and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.
1 Chronicles 25:1
Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, and with cymbals. The number of those who did the work according to their service was:
1 Chronicles 25:3
Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising Yahweh with the harp.
1 Chronicles 25:6
All these were under the hands of their father for song in Yahweh’s house, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and harps, for the service of God’s house: Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the order of the king.
2 Chronicles 5:12
also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and stringed instruments and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty priests sounding with trumpets);
Psalms 62:1
My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.
Psalms 77:1
My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.
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1 Samuel 6:19
He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into Yahweh’s ark, he struck fifty thousand seventy of the men. Then the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.
Matthew 6:19
“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
Mark 10:44
Whoever of you wants to become first among you shall be bondservant of all.
2 Corinthians 10:5
throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
Colossians 3:5
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
1 John 2:15
Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
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Deuteronomy 25:4
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
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Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
2 Peter 2:8
(for that righteous man dwelling among them was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds),
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Job 3:3
“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
Matthew 26:41
Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Acts 20:31
Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
1 Corinthians 10:12
Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.
1 Corinthians 16:13
Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!
Colossians 4:2
Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,
Colossians 4:5
Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Revelation 3:2
Wake up and strengthen the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.
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