Psalms 39:2
I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
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Psalms 39:2
I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
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Genesis 10:3
The sons of Gomer were: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
Acts 11:18
When they heard these things, they held their peace and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”
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Genesis 31:29
It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’
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Genesis 34:5
Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.
Matthew 5:38
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’
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2 Samuel 7:18
Then David the king went in and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?
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1 Kings 2:36
The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and live there, and don’t go anywhere else.
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1 Kings 22:3
The king of Israel said to his servants, “You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we do nothing, and don’t take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?”
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Job 2:9
Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”
Job 3:1
After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
Job 35:16
therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”
Psalms 106:33
because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.
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Job 4:2
“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
Job 6:24
“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.
Job 13:19
Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
Job 20:2
“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.
Job 20:3
I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
Job 32:13
Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom. God may refute him, not man;’
Job 32:14
for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I answer him with your speeches.
Job 32:15
“They are amazed. They answer no more. They don’t have a word to say.
Job 32:16
Shall I wait, because they don’t speak, because they stand still, and answer no more?
Job 32:17
I also will answer my part, and I also will show my opinion.
Romans 10:2
For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
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Psalms 28:1
To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
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 39:12
“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.
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Psalms 38:16
For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”
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Psalms 62:1
My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.
Psalms 65:1
Praise waits for you, God, in Zion. Vows shall be performed to you.
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Psalms 73:15
If I had said, “I will speak thus”, behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
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Psalms 94:17
Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.
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Psalms 119:27
Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
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Proverbs 23:1
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;
Proverbs 23:2
put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.
Proverbs 23:3
Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.
Proverbs 23:6
Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies,
Proverbs 23:7
for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
Proverbs 23:8
You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
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Ecclesiastes 7:13
Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which he has made crooked?
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Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
Matthew 26:33
But Peter answered him, “Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble.”
John 13:37
Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
John 18:9
that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.”
John 18:10
Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.
John 18:11
Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”
Romans 12:12
rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,
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Ezekiel 24:24
Thus Ezekiel will be a sign to you; according to all that he has done, you will do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.’ ” ’ ”
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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.
Proverbs 30:32
“If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.
Isaiah 36:21
But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
Lamentations 3:27
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Amos 5:13
Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
Amos 6:10
“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’
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!
Habakkuk 2:20
But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”
Zechariah 2:13
Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”
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Matthew 26:62
The high priest stood up and said to him, “Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?”
Matthew 26:63
But Jesus stayed silent. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
Mark 14:61
But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”
Luke 13:32
He said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission.
Luke 23:9
He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.
Luke 23:34
Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.
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Acts 17:16
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
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Acts 18:5
When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
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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 34:13
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.
Proverbs 10:31
The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
Proverbs 13:2
By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful crave violence.
Proverbs 15:2
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools gush out folly.
Proverbs 16:10
Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth.
Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
Proverbs 21:26
There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.
Ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Ephesians 5:4
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
James 1:19
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
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!
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Psalms 34:14
Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.
Psalms 72:1
God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.
Proverbs 4:24
Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.
Proverbs 21:23
Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
Luke 14:1
When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.
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.
1 Peter 3:10
For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.
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