Verse 3

Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips -- ruin to him!

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 21:23 : 23 Whoso is keeping his mouth and his tongue, Is keeping from adversities his soul.
  • Jas 3:2-9 : 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; 11 doth the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter? 12 is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water `is able' to make.
  • Prov 18:7 : 7 The mouth of a fool `is' ruin to him, And his lips `are' the snare of his soul.
  • Prov 18:21 : 21 Death and life `are' in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.
  • Prov 12:13 : 13 In transgression of the lips `is' the snare of the wicked, And the righteous goeth out from distress.
  • Matt 12:36-37 : 36 `And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment; 37 for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.'
  • 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;
  • Prov 20:19 : 19 A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver `with' his lips make not thyself surety.
  • Ps 39:1 : 1 To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. I have said, `I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked `is' before me.'
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips `is' wise.