Psalms 34:13
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.
BSB
ASV
Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile.
KJV
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
If … anger has got the start, and has already taken possession of your mind and mounted into your heart, forsake not your ground. Your ground is patience, it is wisdom, it is reason, it is the allaying of indignation. And if the stubbornness of your opponent rouses you and his perverseness drives you to indignation: if you cannot calm your mind, check at least your tongue. For so it is written: "Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips that they speak no guile. Seek peace and pursue it." … First, then, calm your mind.
Keep thy tongue from evil. Guard with careful diligence that dangerous member, the tongue, lest it utter evil, for that evil will recoil upon thee, and mar the enjoyment of thy life. Men cannot spit forth poison without feeling some of the venom burning their own flesh. And thy lips from speaking guile. Deceit must be very earnestly avoided by the man who desires happiness. A crafty schemer lives like a spy in the enemy's camp, in constant fear of exposure and execution.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
James 1:19My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
leads to
A man of knowledge restrains his words, and a man of understanding maintains a calm spirit.
He who guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from distress.
A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly.
When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but he who restrains his lips is wise.
He who answers a matter before he hears it—this is folly and disgrace to him.
Through
Psalms 141:3Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.
leads to
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”
Through
Proverbs 21:23He who guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from distress.
leads to
He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.