¹³ Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.

²² who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in his mouth,

² for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one `is' a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

²⁶ If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain `is' the religion;

⁵ so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!

⁶ and the tongue `is' a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

⁷ For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature,

⁸ and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, `it is' an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

⁹ with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God;

¹⁰ out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

³ Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.

¹ To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. I have said, `I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked `is' before me.'

¹¹ Mischiefs `are' in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.

¹ Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

⁴ these are they who with women were not defiled, for they are virgin; these are they who are following the Lamb whithersoever he may go; these were bought from among men -- a first-fruit to God and to the Lamb --

⁵ and in their mouth there was not found guile, for unblemished are they before the throne of God.

¹⁹ So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

⁹ Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

¹⁹ The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment -- a tongue of falsehood.

²² An abomination to Jehovah `are' lying lips, And stedfast doers `are' his delight.

³ Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips -- ruin to him!

²¹ Death and life `are' in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

⁹ A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.

²³ Whoso is keeping his mouth and his tongue, Is keeping from adversities his soul.

⁸ And He saith, Only My people they `are', Sons -- they lie not, and He is to them for a saviour.

³⁵ The good man out of the good treasure of the heart doth put forth the good things, and the evil man out of the evil treasure doth put forth evil things.

³⁶ `And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

³⁷ for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.'

⁷ Overthrow the wicked, and they are not, And the house of the righteous standeth.