Psalms 39:1

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

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.

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

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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.

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

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—

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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.

Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.

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.

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

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

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

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

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.

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

Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.

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.”

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!

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

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

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;

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

Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.

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.’

Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’

then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, saying, “For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever!” then the house was filled with a cloud, even Yahweh’s house,

“Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’

I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill.

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

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

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

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.

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

Praise waits for you, God, in Zion. Vows shall be performed to you.

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

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

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

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

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

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

For Yahweh says: “David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

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.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

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.

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

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you,

However, Jehu didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin, the golden calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan.

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.

My help comes from Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

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

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;

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

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

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

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

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

“Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.

But the people stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?

who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”

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

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

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

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

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

But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

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.

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.