Bible Cross References
Keep
Psalm 39:1
I said, "I will be careful about what I do and will not let my tongue make me sin; I will not say anything while evil people are near."
Proverbs 18:21
What you say can preserve life or destroy it; so you must accept the consequences of your words.
Matthew 12:35-37
35
A good person brings good things out of a treasure of good things; a bad person brings bad things out of a treasure of bad things.
36
"You can be sure that on the Judgment Day you will have to give account of every useless word you have ever spoken.
37
Your words will be used to judge you---to declare you either innocent or guilty."
James 1:19
Remember this, my dear friends! Everyone must be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to become angry.
James 1:26
Do any of you think you are religious? If you do not control your tongue, your religion is worthless and you deceive yourself.
James 3:2
All of us often make mistakes. But if a person never makes a mistake in what he says, he is perfect and is also able to control his whole being.
James 3:5-10
5
So it is with the tongue: small as it is, it can boast about great things. Just think how large a forest can be set on fire by a tiny flame!
6
And the tongue is like a fire. It is a world of wrong, occupying its place in our bodies and spreading evil through our whole being. It sets on fire the entire course of our existence with the fire that comes to it from hell itself.
7
We humans are able to tame and have tamed all other creatures---wild animals and birds, reptiles and fish.
8
But no one has ever been able to tame the tongue. It is evil and uncontrollable, full of deadly poison.
9
We use it to give thanks to our Lord and Father and also to curse other people, who are created in the likeness of God.
10
Words of thanksgiving and cursing pour out from the same mouth. My friends, this should not happen!
speaking
Psalm 55:11
There is destruction everywhere; the streets are full of oppression and fraud.
Proverbs 12:7
The wicked meet their downfall and leave no descendants, but the families of the righteous live on.
Proverbs 12:19
A lie has a short life, but truth lives on forever.
Proverbs 12:22
The LORD hates liars, but is pleased with those who keep their word.
Proverbs 19:9
No one who tells lies in court can escape punishment; he is doomed.
Isaiah 63:8
The LORD said, "They are my people; they will not deceive me." And so he saved them
Colossians 3:9
Do not lie to one another, for you have put off the old self with its habits
1 Peter 2:1
Rid yourselves, then, of all evil; no more lying or hypocrisy or jealousy or insulting language.
1 Peter 2:22
He committed no sin, and no one ever heard a lie come from his lips.
Revelation 14:4
They are the men who have kept themselves pure by not having sexual relations with women; they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from the rest of the human race and are the first ones to be offered to God and to the Lamb.
Revelation 14:5
They have never been known to tell lies; they are faultless.