“Keep your tongue from evil
And your lips from speaking deceit.”  Psalm 34:13

So often we speak before we have thought about what we are expressing.  Scripture has much to say about our words, there is so much.  So let us look at some.

“Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.”  Colossians 4:6

“Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.”  
Matthew 5:37

“Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so your opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.”  Titus 2:7-8

“Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life;
He who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.”  Proverbs 13:3

“He who keeps his mouth and his tongue
Keeps himself out of trouble.”  Proverbs 21:23

1 Peter 3:10-12 tells us, For
“Whoever desires to love life and see good days,
Let him keep his tongue from evil
And his lips from speaking deceit,
Let him turn away from evil and do good, 
Let him seek peace and pursue it.
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
And His ears are open to their prayer.
But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

The list here is very brief, but I encourage each of us to do a personal in depth study.

I close with a verse that I keep before the Lord,
“Cause me to hear Your loving-kindness in the morning,
For in You do I trust;
Cause me to know the way in which I should walk,
For I lift up my soul to You.”  Psalm 143:8             Amen