THINK BEFORE THOU SPEAKETH Flashcards
“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
“Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.”
Job 6:24
“The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:”
Psalms 12:3
“He that can rule his tongue shall live without strife; and he that hateth babbling shall have less evil.”
Ecclesiasticus 19:6
“Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.”
James 3:9-10
“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.”
James 3:2
“Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.”
Proverbs 10:14
“Some man holdeth his tongue, because he hath not to answer: and some keepeth silence, knowing his time.”
Ecclesiasticus 20:6
“To slip upon a pavement is better than to slip with the tongue: so the fall of the wicked shall come speedily.”
Ecclesiasticus 20:18
“There is one that keepeth silence, and is found wise: and another by much babbling becometh hateful.”
Ecclesiasticus 20:5
“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.”
Psalms 39:1
“And weigh thy words in a balance, and make a door and bar for thy mouth.”
Ecclesiasticus 28:25
“Speak, young man, if there be need of thee: and yet scarcely when thou art twice asked.”
Ecclesiasticus 32:7
“Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words; be as one that knoweth and yet holdeth his tongue.”
Ecclesiasticus 32:8
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Matthew 12:36
