3He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
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Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. …
To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3)Note, 1. A guard upon the lips is a guard to the soul. He that is cautious, that thinks twice before he speaks once, that, if he have thought evil, lays his hand upon his mouth to suppress it, that keeps a strong bridle on his tongue and a strict hand on that bridle, he keeps his soul from a great deal both of guilt and grief and saves himself the trouble of many bitter reflections on himself and…
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