Bible Cross References
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Proverbs 10:19
By a multitude of words you shall not escape sin, but if you refrain your lips you will be prudent.
Proverbs 12:13
For the sin of his lips a sinner falls into snare, but a righteous man escapes from them. [ 12:13A] He whose looks are gentle shall be pitied, but he that contends in the gates will afflict souls.
Proverbs 21:23
He that keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from trouble.
Psalm 39:1
For the end, A Song of David, to Jeduthun. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue; I set a guard on my mouth, while the sinner stood in my presence.
Matthew 12:36
But I say to you, that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
Matthew 12:37
For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned."
James 1:26
If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceiving his heart, the religion of this [man] is useless.
James 3:2-12
2
For we all stumble in many [ways]. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a mature man, able also to bridle the whole body.
3
Consider that we put bits in horses' mouths that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.
4
Consider also the ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the impulse of the pilot desires.
5
Even so the tongue is a small member and it boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles!
6
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. Thus the tongue is set among our members, as that which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.
7
For every kind of both beasts and birds, of both reptiles and sea creatures, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.
8
But no man can tame the tongue. [It] is an unrestrainable evil, full of deadly poison.
9
With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are created according to [the] likeness of God.
10
Out of the same mouth come blessings and curses. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
11
The spring does not pour forth from the same opening [both] the sweet and the bitter [water, does it]?
12
It is not possible, my brothers, [for] a fig tree to make olives, or a vine [to make] figs, [is it]? Thus no spring is able to produce [both] salt and sweet water.