Proverbs 21:23

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.”

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;

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.’

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”

to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

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.

Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.

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

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

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 I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

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

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

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

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

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

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

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.

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

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.

He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.