Psalm 34:13 {33:14}
Good News Translation
Then keep from speaking evil and from telling lies.

New Revised Standard Version
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

Contemporary English Version
Then don't say cruel things and don't tell lies.

New American Bible
Keep your tongue from evil, your lips from speaking lies.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

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Psalm 39:1 Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David. [2] I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my tongue. I have set a guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against me.

Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: they that love it, shall eat the fruits thereof.

Matthew 12:35-37 A good man out of a good treasure bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of an evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. . . .

James 1:19,26 You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger. . . .

James 3:2,5-10 For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man. He is able also with a bridle to lead about the whole body. . . .

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Psalm 55:11 And injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its streets.

Proverbs 12:7,19,22 A man shall be known by his learning: but he that is vain and foolish, shall be exposed to contempt. . . .

Proverbs 19:9 A false witness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh lies, shall perish.

Isaiah 63:8 And he said: Surely they are my people, children that will not deny: so he became their saviour.

Colossians 3:9 Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds,

1 Peter 2:1,22 Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions, . . .

Revelation 14:4,5 These are they who were not defiled with women: for they are virgins. These follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, the firstfruits to God and to the Lamb. . . .

Context
Taste and See that the LORD is Good
12Who is the man that desireth life: who liveth to see good days? 13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.14Turn away from evil and do good: seek after peace and pursue it.…
Cross References
James 1:26
And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

1 Peter 2:22
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth.

1 Peter 3:10
For he that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.

Psalm 39:1
Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David. [2] I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my tongue. I have set a guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against me.

Psalm 141:3
Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.

Proverbs 13:3
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his soul: but he that hath no guard on his speech shall meet with evils.

Psalm 34:12
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