Listen to me, for I will speak solemn [truths]; and I will produce right [sayings] from my lips.

Let no corrupt word proceed from your mouth, but only what is good for edification, that it may give grace to them that hear.

neither wickedness, nor foolish talk or coarse jesting, which are not proper, but rather thanksgiving.

that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

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.