15 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh bones.
3 (12:4) May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh boastful things:
4 (12:5) Who have said, With our tongue will we be mighty; our lips are with us; who is Lord over us!
1 To the chief musician, to Jeduthun, a psalm of David.(39:2) I said, I will guard my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, while the wicked is before me.
21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it will eat its fruit.
9 (55:10) Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongue; for I have seen violence and strife in the city;
28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness, all the day of thy praise.
19 The lip of truth will stand firm for ever; but only for a moment the tongue of falsehood.
12 (34:13) Who is the man that desireth life, loveth many days, that he may see happiness?
13 (34:14) Guard thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking deceit.
18 There is some one that useth words which are like the thrusts of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is healing.
4 For, while there is not a word on my tongue, lo, thou, O Lord, knowest it entirely.
28 Even a fool, when he keepeth silence, is counted wise: he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
2 O Lord, deliver my soul from lips of falsehood, and from a tongue of deceit.
30 The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, and his tongue speaketh what is just.
31 The law of his God is in his heart: none of his steps shall slip.
19 In a multitude of words transgression cannot be avoided; but he that refraineth his lips is intelligent.
5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man were building.
6 And the Lord said, Behold, it is one people, and they have all one language, and this is the first thing they undertake to do; and now shall they not be restrained in all which they have imagined to do?
7 Go to, let us go down, and confound there their language, that they may not understand one anothers speech.
8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth; and from there did the Lord scatter them abroad over the face of all the earth.