Psalm 34:13
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13 Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from deceitful speech.(A)
Psalm 39:1
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Psalm 39
The Fleeting Nature of Life
For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A psalm of David.
1 I said, “I will guard my ways
so that I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth with a muzzle
as long as the wicked are in my presence.”(A)
Psalm 141:3
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3 Lord, set up a guard for my mouth;
keep watch at the door of my lips.(A)
James 3:2-3
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2 For we all stumble in many ways.(A) If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is mature, able also to control the whole body.(B) 3 Now if we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us,(C) we direct their whole bodies.
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1 Peter 3:10
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10 For the(A) one who wants to love life
and to see good days,
let him keep his tongue from evil(B)
and his lips from speaking deceit,(C)
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