Proverbs 15:2

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

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

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

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

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.

Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

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

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”

“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.

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

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded to him.

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

Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

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

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Yes also when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works?

No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.

All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

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.

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

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit.

Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

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

The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.

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

The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.

is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

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.

and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.

that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.

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

Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.

Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.

The Lord Yahweh says, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!