Psalms 39:1
To the excellent musician Ieduthun. A Psalme of Dauid. I thought, I will take heede to my wayes, that I sinne not with my tongue: I will keepe my mouth brideled, while the wicked is in my sight.
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- 1 Kgs 2:4 : 4 That the Lorde may confirme his worde which hee spake vnto me, saying, If thy sonnes take heede to their way, that they walke before me in trueth, with all their hearts, and with all their soules, thou shalt not (sayd he) want one of thy posteritie vpon the throne of Israel.
- 2 Kgs 10:31 : 31 But Iehu regarded not to walke in the law of the Lorde God of Israel with all his heart: for hee departed not from the sinnes of Ieroboam, which made Israel to sinne.
- Job 2:10 : 10 But he said vnto her, Thou speakest like a foolish woman: what? shall we receiue good at the hande of God, and not receiue euill? In all this did not Iob sinne with his lippes.
- Ps 62:1 : 1 To the excellent musician Ieduthun. A Psalme of Dauid. Yet my soule keepeth silence vnto God: of him commeth my saluation.
- 1 Chr 16:41 : 41 And with them were Heman, and Ieduthun, and the rest that were chosen (which were appointed by names) to praise the Lorde, because his mercie endureth for euer.
- Ps 119:9 : 9 Beth. Wherewith shall a yong man redresse his waie? In taking heede thereto according to thy woorde.
- Ps 141:3 : 3 Set a watch, O Lorde, before my mouth, and keepe the doore of my lips.
- Prov 4:26-27 : 26 Ponder the path of thy feete, and let all thy waies be ordred aright. 27 Turne not to the right hande, nor to the left, but remooue thy foote from euill.
- Prov 18:21 : 21 Death & life are in the power of ye tongue, and they that loue it, shal eate the fruite thereof.
- Prov 21:23 : 23 He that keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soule from afflictions.
- Amos 5:13 : 13 Therefore the prudent shal keepe silence in that time, for it is an euill time.
- Mic 7:5-6 : 5 Trust ye not in a friend, neither put ye confidence in a counseller: keepe the doores of thy mouth from her that lyeth in thy bosome. 6 For the sonne reuileth the father: ye daughter riseth vp against her mother: the daughter in lawe against her mother in lawe, and a mans enemies are the men of his owne house.
- Col 4:5 : 5 Walke wisely towarde them that are without, and redeeme the season.
- Heb 2:1 : 1 Wherefore wee ought diligently to giue heede to the thinges which wee haue heard, lest at any time we runne out.
- Jas 1:26 : 26 If any man amog you seeme religious, and refraineth not his tongue, but deceiueth his owne heart, this mans religion is vaine.
- Jas 3:2-8 : 2 For in many things we sinne all. If any man sinne not in word, he is a perfect man, and able to bridle all the body. 3 Beholde, we put bittes into the horses mouthes, that they should obey vs, and we turne about all their bodie. 4 Behold also the shippes, which though they be so great, and are driuen of fierce windes, yet are they turned about with a very small rudder, whither soeuer the gouernour listeth. 5 Euen so the tongue is a litle member, and boasteth of great things: beholde, howe great a thing a litle fire kindleth. 6 And the tongue is fire, yea, a worlde of wickednesse: so is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell. 7 For the whole nature of beasts, & of birds, and of creeping things, and things of the sea is tamed, and hath bene tamed of the nature of man. 8 But the tongue can no man tame. It is an vnruly euill, full of deadly poyson.
- 1 Chr 25:1-6 : 1 So Dauid and the captaines of the armie separated for the ministerie the sonnes of Asaph, and Heman, and Ieduthun, who should sing prophesies with harpes, with violes, and with cymbales, and their nomber was euen of the men for the office of their ministerie, to wit, 2 Of the sonnes of Asaph, Zaccur, and Ioseph, and Nethaniah, and Asharelah the sonnes of Asaph were vnder the hand of Asaph, which sang prophesies by the commission of the King. 3 Of Ieduthun, the sonnes of Ieduthun, Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Ieshaiah, Ashabiah and Mattithiah, six, vnder the hands of their father: Ieduthun sang prophecies with an harpe, for to giue thankes and to praise the Lorde. 4 Of Heman, the sonnes of Heman, Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Vzziel, Shebuel, and Ierimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, Ioshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth. 5 All these were the sonnes of Heman, the Kings Seer in the wordes of God to lift vp the horne: and God gaue to Heman fourtene sonnes and three daughters. 6 All these were vnder the hande of their father, singing in the house of the Lorde with cymbales, violes and harpes, for the seruice of the house of God, and Asaph, and Ieduthun, and Heman were at the Kings commandement.
- Ps 73:8-9 : 8 They are licentious, and speake wickedly of their oppression: they talke presumptuously. 9 They set their mouth against heauen, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
- Ps 77:1 : 1 For the excellent musitian Ieduthun. A Psalme committed to Asaph. My voyce came to God, when I cryed: my voyce came to God, and he heard me.
- Ps 12:4 : 4 Which haue saide, With our tongue will we preuaile: our lippes are our owne: who is Lord ouer vs?
- Ps 34:13 : 13 Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lips, that they speake no guile.
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2 I was dumme & spake nothing: I kept silece euen from good, and my sorow was more stirred.
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3 Set a watch, O Lorde, before my mouth, and keepe the doore of my lips.
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4 My lips surely shall speake no wickednesse, and my tongue shall vtter no deceite.
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3 Thou hast prooued and visited mine heart in the night: thou hast tryed me, and foundest nothing: for I was purposed that my mouth should not offend.
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30 Neither haue I suffred my mouth to sinne, by wishing a curse vnto his soule.
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23 He that keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soule from afflictions.
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- Prov 8:6-72 verses73%
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101 I haue refrained my feete from euery euil way, that I might keepe thy word.
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2 For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth full of deceite are opened vpon me: they haue spoken to me with a lying tongue.
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15 If I say, I will iudge thus, beholde the generation of thy children: I haue trespassed.
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24 Teach me, and I wil hold my tongue: & cause me to vnderstande, wherein I haue erred.
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19 Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye.
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18 When I declare my paine, and am sory for my sinne,
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19 Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.
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14 Thus am I as a man, that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofes.
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24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee.
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31 The mouth of the iust shall be fruitfull in wisdome: but the tongue of the froward shall be cut out.
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11 My foote hath followed his steps: his way haue I kept, and haue not declined.
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18 Let the lying lips be made dumme, which cruelly, proudly and spitefully speake against the righteous.
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31 Marke well, O Iob, and heare me: keepe silence, and I will speake.
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12 For the sinne of their mouth, and the words of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride, euen for their periurie and lies, that they speake.
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43 And take not the woorde of trueth vtterly out of my mouth: for I waite for thy iudgements.
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23 I was vpright also with him, & haue kept me from my wickednes.
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10 For if any man long after life, and to see good dayes, let him refraine his tongue from euill, and his lippes that they speake no guile.
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11 I haue hid thy promes in mine heart, that I might not sinne against thee.
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1 I made a couenant with mine eyes: why then should I thinke on a mayde?
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24 I was vpright also towarde him, and haue kept me from my wickednesse.
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34 Though I could haue made afraid a great multitude, yet the most contemptible of the families did feare me: so I kept silence, and went not out of the doore.
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16 For I said, Heare me, least they reioyce ouer me: for when my foote slippeth, they extol themselues against me.
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21 These things hast thou done, and I held my tongue: therefore thou thoughtest that I was like thee: but I will reproue thee, and set them in order before thee.
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6 (5:5) Suffer not thy mouth to make thy flesh to sinne: neither say before the Angel, that this is ignorance: wherefore shall God bee angry by thy voyce, and destroy the worke of thine hands?
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3 For I know mine iniquities, and my sinne is euer before me.
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16 But I haue not thrust in my selfe for a pastour after thee, neither haue I desired the day of miserie, thou knowest: that which came out of my lips, was right before thee.