Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth

Bagster's Daily Light - January 5 - Evening

Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth ...

Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips! 1

If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? 2

for they made his spirit bitter, and he spoke rashly with his lips. 3

it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person." 4

A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends. 5

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment. 6

but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 7

But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 8

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 9

and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are blameless. 10
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1 Psa 141:3;
2 Psa 130:3;
3 Psa 106:33;
4 Matt 15:11;
5 Prov 16:28;
6 Prov 12:18,19;
7 James 3:8,10;
8 Col 3:8,9;
9 1Thess 4:3;
10 Rev 14:5