Psalms 141:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.

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  • Mic 7:5 : 5 Do not trust in a friend, put no confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.
  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is useless.
  • Ps 39:1 : 1 I said, I will be careful of my ways, so that I do not sin with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked are before me.
  • Ps 71:8 : 8 Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honor all the day.
  • Ps 17:3-5 : 3 You have tested my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. 4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the paths of the destroyer. 5 Hold up my steps in your paths, that my footsteps do not slip.
  • Ps 34:13 : 13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many things we all stumble. If anyone does not stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 I said, I will be careful of my ways, so that I do not sin with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked are before me.

  • 15 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare your praise.

  • 24 Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.

  • Ps 17:3-5
    3 verses
    76%

    3 You have tested my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

    4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the paths of the destroyer.

    5 Hold up my steps in your paths, that my footsteps do not slip.

  • 13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

  • Prov 8:6-7
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    6 Hear, for I will speak of excellent things; and from the opening of my lips will come right things.

    7 For my mouth will speak truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

  • 4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

  • 4 Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with those who do iniquity; and let me not eat of their delicacies.

  • 3 He who guards his mouth keeps his life, but he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

  • 13 With my lips I have declared all the judgments of Your mouth.

  • 4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from violent men, who have purposed to overthrow my steps.

  • Ps 109:1-2
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    74%

    1 Do not remain silent, O God of my praise;

    2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

  • 2 Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.

  • 9 As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

  • 14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength and my redeemer.

  • 2 That you may keep discretion, and that your lips may preserve knowledge.

  • 18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

  • 1 Hear my plea, O LORD, attend to my cry; give ear to my prayer, which is not from deceitful lips.

  • 23 Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

  • Job 33:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2 Behold, now I have opened my mouth; my tongue has spoken in my mouth.

    3 My words shall be from the uprightness of my heart, and my lips shall clearly speak knowledge.

  • 2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue.

  • 171 My lips shall utter praise, for You teach me Your statutes.

  • 2 Let my prayer be set before you as incense, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

  • 18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be ready on your lips.

  • 16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd to follow you: neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was right before you.

  • 3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

  • 3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things:

  • 31 The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.

  • 43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for I have hoped in Your judgments.

  • 11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.

  • 10 A divine sentence is in the lips of the king; his mouth does not transgress in judgment.

  • 3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise will preserve them.

  • 131 I opened my mouth and panted, for I longed for Your commandments.

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    3 In the morning, O LORD, you shall hear my voice; in the morning, I will direct my prayer to you, and will look up.

  • 9 Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and the traps of the workers of iniquity.

  • 16 Yes, my inmost being shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.

  • 8 Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honor all the day.

  • 6 Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

  • 148 My eyes are awake through the night watches, that I may meditate on Your word.

  • 27 And my heart was secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand:

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    1 Listen to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.

  • 12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride, and for the cursing and lying which they speak.

  • 62 The lips of those who rose up against me, and their plot against me all day long.

  • 133 Direct my steps by Your word, and let no iniquity have dominion over me.