Psalms 34:14

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Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.

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  • Heb 12:14 : 14 Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
  • Ps 37:27 : 27 Turn away from evil and do good, so that you will dwell forever.
  • Isa 1:16-17 : 16 Wash yourselves and make yourselves clean. Remove your evil deeds from My sight; stop doing evil. 17 Learn to do what is good; seek justice, correct the oppressor. Defend the cause of the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.
  • Rom 12:18 : 18 If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
  • Rom 14:17 : 17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
  • Rom 14:19 : 19 So then, let us pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another.
  • 2 Cor 13:11 : 11 Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
  • Gal 6:10 : 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, especially to those who belong to the household of faith.
  • Prov 16:16-17 : 16 How much better to get wisdom than gold, to gain understanding rather than silver! 17 The highway of the upright avoids evil; those who guard their ways preserve their lives.
  • 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: 'The Lord knows those who are His,' and, 'Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.'
  • Prov 3:7 : 7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and turn away from evil.
  • Jas 3:17-18 : 17 But the wisdom that comes from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial, and sincere. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
  • 1 Pet 3:11 : 11 He must turn away from evil and do what is good; he must seek peace and pursue it.
  • 3 John 1:11 : 11 Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.
  • Matt 5:9 : 9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And He said to mankind, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.'
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify a people for His own possession, who are eager to do good works.
  • 1 Thess 4:11 : 11 And to make it your ambition to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,
  • Acts 10:38 : 38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.
  • Rom 12:9 : 9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior, and perverse speech.
  • Prov 13:14 : 14 The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, helping one turn away from the traps of death.
  • Ps 120:7 : 7 I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.
  • Heb 13:16 : 16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 87%

    10 For the one who wants to love life and to see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

    11 He must turn away from evil and do what is good; he must seek peace and pursue it.

    12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are attentive to their prayers. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.

  • 27 Turn away from evil and do good, so that you will dwell forever.

  • 13 Who is the person who desires life and loves many days to see good?

  • 14 Seek good and not evil so that you may live, and so the Lord, the God of Hosts, will be with you, just as you have said.

  • Prov 4:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14 Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.

    15 Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn away from it and go on your way.

  • 27 Do not turn to the right or to the left; keep your foot away from evil.

  • 8 Cease from anger and abandon wrath; do not fret—it only leads to evil.

  • Ps 125:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4 Do good, O LORD, to those who are good and to those who are upright in heart.

    5 But those who turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD will lead away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.

  • 3 Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who do evil, who speak peace to their neighbors but harbor evil in their hearts.

  • Ps 34:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15 Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

    16 The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their cry.

  • 17 The highway of the upright avoids evil; those who guard their ways preserve their lives.

  • 19 True righteousness leads to life, but whoever chases after evil brings about his own death.

  • 115 Depart from me, evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

  • 16 Wash yourselves and make yourselves clean. Remove your evil deeds from My sight; stop doing evil.

  • 14 Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

  • Prov 4:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24 Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and keep corrupt speech far from you.

    25 Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you.

  • 27 Whoever diligently seeks good finds favor, but trouble will come to the one who searches for evil.

  • 13 If anyone returns evil for good, evil will never depart from their house.

  • 21 Be reconciled with God now, and at peace with Him; this will bring good to you.

  • 33 But whoever listens to me will dwell securely and be at ease, without fear of harm.

  • 6 Through love and faithfulness sin is atoned for; through the fear of the Lord evil is avoided.

  • Prov 3:29-30
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    71%

    29 Do not plot harm against your neighbor who lives trustingly beside you.

    30 Do not accuse anyone for no reason, when they have done you no harm.

  • 7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and turn away from evil.

  • 19 Do not fret because of evildoers, and do not envy the wicked.

  • 15 See that no one repays evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good, both for one another and for everyone.

  • 21 Trouble pursues sinners, but the righteous are rewarded with good.

  • 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

  • 28 And He said to mankind, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.'

  • 19 So then, let us pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another.

  • 22 Do not those who plot evil go astray? But those who plan good find love and faithfulness.

  • 11 And now, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, ‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each one from his evil way, and reform your ways and deeds.’

  • 12 rescuing you from the way of evil, from anyone who speaks perversely,

  • 15 Break the arm of the wicked and the evildoer! Call him to account for his wickedness until it is no more found.

  • 14 if iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let wrongdoing dwell in your tent,

  • 20 So you will walk in the way of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.

  • 9 The children born to them in the third generation may enter the assembly of the LORD.

  • 4 A perverse heart will depart from me; I will not associate with evil.

  • 22 Abstain from every form of evil.

  • 1 For the director of music, a psalm of David.

  • 15 My son, do not walk in the way with them; keep your foot away from their paths,

  • 20 Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy is for those who counsel peace.

  • 20 But my enemies are vigorous and strong, and many are those who hate me wrongfully.

  • 15 Do not lie in ambush, wicked person, at the house of the righteous; do not destroy their resting place.