Opening Your Mouth can ruin EVERYTHING...be careful.

Opening Your Mouth Can Ruin Everything

 

Proverbs 13:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes

 

Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Proverbs 13:1-25 ESV / 9 helpful votes

 

A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke. From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence. Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied. The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace. ...

Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Proverbs 12:1-28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of evil devices he condemns. No one is established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved. An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones. The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful. ...

Psalm 141:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ...

Matthew 12:36-37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Proverbs 13:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Jeremiah 5:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her. Though they say, “As the Lord lives,” yet they swear falsely. O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent. Then I said, “These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God. I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds. ...

Proverbs 21:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.

Proverbs 14:1-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down. Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is devious in his ways despises him. By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them. Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox. A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. ...

Proverbs 13:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.

Proverbs 10:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

Psalm 34:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

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

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

1 Peter 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;

1 Timothy 6:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Luke 1:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Matthew 12:34-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.

Ezekiel 18:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord God. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.

Isaiah 50:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Isaiah 49:15-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...

Proverbs 25:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.

Proverbs 25:1-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied. It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out. As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the heart of kings is unsearchable. Take away the dross from the silver, and the smith has material for a vessel; take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness. ...

Proverbs 20:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 18:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

Proverbs 16:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

The heart of the wise makes his speech judicious and adds persuasiveness to his lips.

Proverbs 15:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

Proverbs 15:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!

Proverbs 15:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

Proverbs 10:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the blameless, but destruction to evildoers.

Proverbs 10:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.

Proverbs 10:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

Proverbs 10:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

Proverbs 8:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud: “To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the children of man. O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense. ...

Psalm 146:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

The Lord watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

Psalm 39:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence.”