Proverbs 13:3

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

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—

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

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,

A gracious woman obtains honor, but violent men obtain riches.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

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.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

He who answers before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”

who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

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.

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

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.

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.”

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

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.

He said to her, “If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.

Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.