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Be Slow To Speak

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December 24, 2023



"The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;"
Psalms 58:3-4, KJV


"Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer."
Psalms 101:5, KJV


"Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee."
Proverbs 4:24, KJV


"A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy." Proverbs 6:12-15

"The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate."
Proverbs 8:13, KJV


"He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool. In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise."
Proverbs 10:18-19, KJV


"He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him . . . Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof."
Proverbs 18:13, 21, KJV


"He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls."
Proverbs 25:28, KJV


"A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards."
Proverbs 29:11, KJV


"Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few."
Ecclesiastes 5:2, KJV


"For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."
Matthew 12:37, KJV


"Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?"
Romans 9:20, KJV


"Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:"
James 1:19, 26, KJV


"Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell."
James 3:5-6, KJV


"For‭ he that will‭‭ love‭‭ life‭, and‭ see‭‭ good‭ days‭, let him refrain‭‭ ‭his‭‭ ‭tongue‭‭ from‭ evil‭, and‭ his‭ lips‭ that they speak‭‭ no‭ guile‭:"
1 Peter 3:10, KJV




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