Sirach 23:13

¹³ Don’t accustom your mouth to gross rudeness, for it involves sinful speech. (WEB)

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Proverbs 4:23–25

²³ Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life. ²⁴ Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech. ²⁵ Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.

Sirach 23:8–10

⁸ The sinner will be overpowered through his lips. By them, the insulter and the arrogant will stumble. (WEB) ⁹ Don’t accustom your mouth to an oath, and don’t be accustomed to naming the Holy One, (WEB) ¹⁰ for as a servant who is continually scourged will not lack bruises, so he… (WEB)

Sirach 7:12–14

¹² Don’t devise a lie against your brother, or do the same to a friend. (WEB) ¹³ Refuse to utter a lie, for that habit results in no good. (WEB) ¹⁴ Don’t babble in the assembly of elders. Don’t repeat your words in your prayer. (WEB)

Psalms 34:12–14

¹² Who is the man who delights in life, who desires to see good days? ¹³ Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech. ¹⁴ Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

Sirach 4:28–30

²⁸ Strive for the truth to death, and the Lord God will fight for you. (WEB) ²⁹ Don’t be hasty with your tongue, or slack and negligent in your deeds. (WEB) ³⁰ Don’t be like a lion in your house, or suspicious of your servants. (WEB)

Job 15:4–6

⁴ But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him. ⁵ For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. ⁶ Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.

Ecclesiastes 5:5–7

⁵ It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it. ⁶ Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, and do not tell the messenger that your vow was a mistake. Why should God be angry with your words and destroy the work of your hands? ⁷ For as many drea…

1 Clement 22:2–4

² What man is he that desireth life and loveth to see good days? (1CL) ³ Make thy tongue to cease from evil, and thy lips that they speak no guile. (1CL) ⁴ Turn aside from evil and do good. (1CL)

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