Psalms 106:33

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.

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

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

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

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”

You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

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!

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

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.

Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”

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.’

I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

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

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

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.

“If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.

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.

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

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Those of you that escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols. Then they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because his loving kindness endures forever;

See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth.

‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’

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

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

My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honor all day long.

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.

Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’

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.

Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t stand evil assemblies.

But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

“Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.

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?”

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

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.

After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.

“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

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.”

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.

because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

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

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

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 this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: