Bible verse
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.
Psalm 34:13 · BSB
The verses around it, from Psalm 34.
9 Fear the LORD, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing.
10 Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
11 Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
12 Who is the man who delights in life, who desires to see good days?
13 Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.
14 Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
15 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
16 But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.
17 The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears; He delivers them from all their troubles.
KJV
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
ASV
Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile.
ERV
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
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