Verse 10

for `he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips -- not to speak guile;

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 34:12-16 : 12 Who `is' the man that is desiring life? Loving days to see good? 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit. 14 Turn aside from evil and do good, Seek peace and pursue it. 15 The eyes of Jehovah `are' unto the righteous, And His ears unto their cry. 16 (The face of Jehovah `is' on doers of evil, To cut off from earth their memorial.)
  • Jas 1:26 : 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;
  • Jas 3:1-9 : 1 Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive, 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; 3 lo, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and their whole body we turn about; 4 lo, also the ships, being so great, and by fierce winds being driven, are led about by a very small helm, whithersoever the impulse of the helmsman doth counsel, 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;
  • 1 Pet 2:1 : 1 Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,
  • 1 Pet 2:22 : 22 who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in his mouth,
  • Rev 14:5 : 5 and in their mouth there was not found guile, for unblemished are they before the throne of God.
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming unto him, and he saith concerning him, `Lo, truly an Israelite, in whom guile is not;'
  • John 12:25 : 25 he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world -- to life age-during shall keep it;
  • Prov 3:2 : 2 For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.
  • Prov 3:18 : 18 A tree of life she `is' to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her `is' happy.
  • Prov 4:22 : 22 For life they `are' to those finding them, And to all their flesh healing.
  • Prov 8:35 : 35 For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.
  • Eccl 2:3 : 3 I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where `is' this -- the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.
  • Matt 13:16-17 : 16 `And happy are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear, 17 for verily I say to you, that many prophets and righteous men did desire to see that which ye look on, and they did not see, and to hear that which ye hear, and they did not hear.
  • Matt 19:17 : 17 And he said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one `is' good except One -- God; but if thou dost will to enter into the life, keep the commands.'
  • Mark 8:35 : 35 for whoever may will to save his life shall lose it; and whoever may lose his life for my sake and for the good news' sake, he shall save it;
  • Ps 49:19 : 19 It cometh to the generation of his fathers, For ever they see not the light.
  • Ps 106:5 : 5 To look on the good of Thy chosen ones, To rejoice in the joy of Thy nation, To boast myself with Thine inheritance.
  • Deut 32:47 : 47 for it `is' not a vain thing for you, for it `is' your life, and by this thing ye prolong days on the ground whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it.'
  • Job 2:4 : 4 And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, `A skin for a skin, and all that a man hath he doth give for his life.
  • Job 7:7-8 : 7 Remember Thou that my life `is' a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good. 8 The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes `are' upon me -- and I am not.
  • Job 9:25 : 25 My days have been swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have not seen good,
  • Job 33:28 : 28 He hath ransomed my soul From going over into the pit, And my life on the light looketh.'
  • Ps 27:13 : 13 I had not believed to look on the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living!