REFERENCE

ENGAGE BRAIN BEFORE PUTTING MOUTH IN GEAR

Job 6:24

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue : and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

Job 27:4

My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

Psalms 5:9

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue .

Psalms 34:13

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

Psalms 39:1

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

Psalms 50:19

Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit .

Psalms 52:2

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalms 52:4

Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue .

Psalms 120:2

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue .

Psalms 139:4

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

Proverbs 18:13

He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

Proverbs 21:23

Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

Proverbs 26:20

Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

Proverbs 29:20

Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Ecclesiastes 5:6

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

James 1:26

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue , but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

James 3:5-6, 8

[3:5] Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! [3:6] And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. [3:8] But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil , full of deadly poison.