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Psalms 34:13

Keep your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Falsehood;   Longevity;   Quotations and Allusions;   Slander;   Speaking;   Thompson Chain Reference - Evil;   Silence-Speech;   Social Duties;   Speaking, Evil;   Tongue Restrained;   The Topic Concordance - Evil;   Guile;   Speech/communication;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Sincerity;   Slander;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Letters;   Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Abimelech;   Teacher;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Disease;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Tongue;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abimelech;   Achish;   Acrostic;   David;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Commandment;   Tongue;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Abimelech;   Achish;   Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crime;   Guile;   Life;   Slander;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Alexandri;   Calumny;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Then keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from telling lies!
English Revised Version
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Update Bible Version
Keep your tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking guile.
New Century Version
You must not say evil things, and you must not tell lies.
New English Translation
Then make sure you don't speak evil words or use deceptive speech!
Webster's Bible Translation
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
World English Bible
Keep your tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking lies.
English Standard Version
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forbede thi tunge fro yuel; and thi lippis speke not gile.
Berean Standard Bible
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.
Contemporary English Version
Then don't say cruel things and don't tell lies.
American Standard Version
Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile.
Bible in Basic English
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.
Complete Jewish Bible
Which of you takes pleasure in living? Who wants a long life to see good things?
Darby Translation
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile;
Easy-to-Read Version
Then avoid saying anything hurtful, and never let a lie come out of your mouth.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who is the man that desireth life, and loveth days, that he may see good therein?
King James Version (1611)
Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lippes from speaking guile.
New Life Bible
Keep your tongue from sin and your lips from speaking lies.
New Revised Standard
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lips, that they speake no guile.
George Lamsa Translation
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile.
Good News Translation
Then keep from speaking evil and from telling lies.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Keep thy tongue from wickedness, And thy lips from speaking deceit:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(33-14) Keep thy tongue form evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Revised Standard Version
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Kepe thy tongue from euill: and thy lippes that they speake no guyle.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Christian Standard Bible®
Keep your tongue from eviland your lips from deceitful speech.
Hebrew Names Version
Keep your tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking lies.
King James Version
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Lexham English Bible
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.
Literal Translation
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking guile;
Young's Literal Translation
Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let him refrayne his tonge from euell, and his lippes that they speake no gyle.
THE MESSAGE
Guard your tongue from profanity, and no more lying through your teeth.
New American Standard Bible
Keep your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit.
New King James Version
Keep your tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking deceit.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Keep your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit.
Legacy Standard Bible
Guard your tongue from evilAnd your lips from speaking deceit.

Contextual Overview

11Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you to fear the LORD [with awe-inspired reverence and worship Him with obedience]. 12Who is the man who desires life And loves many days, that he may see good? 13Keep your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit.14Turn away from evil and do good; Seek peace and pursue it. 15The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous [those with moral courage and spiritual integrity] And His ears are open to their cry. 16The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, To cut off the memory of them from the earth. 17When the righteous cry [for help], the LORD hears And rescues them from all their distress and troubles. 18The LORD is near to the heartbroken And He saves those who are crushed in spirit (contrite in heart, truly sorry for their sin). 19Many hardships and perplexing circumstances confront the righteous, But the LORD rescues him from them all. 20He keeps all his bones; Not one of them is broken.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Keep: Psalms 39:1, Proverbs 18:21, Matthew 12:35-37, James 1:19, James 1:26, James 3:2, James 3:5-10

speaking: Psalms 55:11, Proverbs 12:7, Proverbs 12:19, Proverbs 12:22, Proverbs 19:9, Isaiah 63:8, Colossians 3:9, 1 Peter 2:1, 1 Peter 2:22, Revelation 14:4, Revelation 14:5

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 29:8 - that I may not Job 15:13 - and lettest Psalms 15:2 - speaketh

Cross-References

Genesis 34:18
Their words seemed reasonable to Hamor and his son Shechem,
Genesis 34:20
Then Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their [walled] city [where the leading men would meet] and spoke with the men of the city, saying,
Genesis 34:23
"Will not their cattle and their possessions and all their animals be ours [if we do this]? Let us consent [to do as they ask], and they will live here with us."
Genesis 34:24
And every [Canaanite] man who went out of the city gate listened and considered what Hamor and Shechem said; and every male who was a resident of that city was circumcised.
Genesis 34:26
They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house [where she was staying], and left.
Genesis 34:27
Then Jacob's [other] sons came upon those who were killed and looted the town, because their sister had been defiled and disgraced.
Genesis 34:28
They took the Canaanites' flocks and their herds and their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field;
Genesis 34:29
they looted all their wealth, and [took captive] all their children and their wives, even everything that was in the houses.
Judges 15:3
Samson said to them, "This time I shall be blameless in regard to the Philistines when I do them harm."
Job 13:4
"But you smear me with lies [you defame my character most untruthfully]; You are all worthless physicians and have no remedy to offer.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Keep thy tongue from evil,.... This, and what follows in this verse and Psalms 34:14, point at the things wherein the fear of God shows itself; and suggest, that those who have it, and which is known by these fruits, shall enjoy the desirable and good days before mentioned. The tongue is an instrument of much evil, an unruly member, and needs restraint; and it is from evil, and not from good, it is to be kept; from evil speaking of God, from cursing and swearing; from evil speaking of men, reproaching and reviling them; from filthy speaking, from all obscene and unchaste words, and from all lying ones; for where such evil speaking is indulged, the fear of God cannot be in that man;

and thy lips from speaking guile; hypocritical and deceitful words, speaking with flattering lips and a double heart: some speak bad words in common conversation, through an evil habit and custom; and some speak good words with an ill design; and in neither of them is the fear of God before their eyes, nor in their hearts.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Keep thy tongue from evil - From speaking wrong things. Always give utterance to truth, and truth alone. The meaning is, that this is one of the methods of lengthening out life. To love the truth; to speak the truth; to avoid all falsehood, slander, and deceit, will contribute to this, or will be a means which will tend to prolong life, and to make it happy.

And thy lips from speaking guile - Deceit. Do not “deceive” others by your words. Do not make any statements which are not true, or any promises which you cannot and will not keep. Do not flatter others; and do not give utterance to slander. Be a man characterized by the love of truth: and let all your words convey truth, and truth only. It cannot be doubted that this, like all other virtues, would tend to lengthen life, and to make it prosperous and peaceful. There is no vice which does not tend to abridge human life, as there is no virtue which does not tend to lengthen it. But probably the specific idea here is, that the way to avoid the hostility of other people, and to secure their favor and friendship, is to deal with them truly, and thus to live in peace with them. It is true, also, that God will bless a life of virtue and uprightness, and though there is no absolute certainty that anyone, however virtuous he may be, may not be cut off in early life, yet it is also true that, other things being equal, a man of truth and integrity will be more likely to live long - (as he will be more certain to make the most of life) - than one who is false and corrupt.


 
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