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Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
PROVERBS 21:23
The sacred writer crowns the whole:
Who keeps his tongue, doth keep his soul.
UNKNOWN
God has made our lips the door of the mouth, but we cannot keep that door of ourselves; therefore do we entreat the Lord to take the rule of it.
C.H. SPURGEON
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
UNKNOWN
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
PROVERBS 13:3
He that looks carefully to his tongue, takes a safe course for preserving his life, which is oft endangered by much and wild talking.
SCOTT'S COMMENTARY
In company, guard your tongue; in solitude, your heart. Our words need watching; but so also do our thoughts and imaginations, which grow most active when we are alone.
C.H SPURGEON
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
PSALM 141:3
How needed is a sentinel and guard at the door! For lack of it, what mischief has been wrought! Who can recount all the ills of unguarded speech?
S. CONWAY
Let us keep constant watch over ourselves, that we may speak words agreeable to the Christian character.
MATTHEW HENRY
The first virtue, son, if thou wilt learn,
Is to restrain and keep well thy tongue.
CHAUCER
When Jehovah sets the watch, the city is well guarded: when the Lord becomes the guard of our mouth, the whole man is well garrisoned.
C.H. SPURGEON
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this mans religion is vain.
JAMES 1:26
The picture is that of a man putting a bridle in his own mouth, not in that of another.
A.T. ROBERTSON
Let us lay that word to heart. Whatever may be the outside profession, if we do not govern our tongue for God, if we use it for gossip, trifling, scandal or slander, our very profession of Christs name is a cheat and a lie.
PULPIT COMMENTARY
Yet men do not bridle horses merely to restrain them from mischief, or from going in a wrong way; but likewise, in order to rule and direct them in the right way, that they may be useful and not merely inoffensive.
THOMAS SCOTT
Nature having made my lips to be a door to my words, let grace keep that door, that no word may be suffered to go out which may any way tend to the dishonor of God, or the hurt of others.
MATTHEW HENRY
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
Every day and every hour we should examine ourselves in the use of our tongues.
CHARLES FINNEY
And weigh thy words in a balance, and make a door and bar for thy mouth.
ECCLESIASTICUS 25:25
Hands and feet one may bind, but who can fetter the lips? Iron bands may hold a madman, but what chains can restrain the tongue? It needs more than a purpose to keep this nimble offender within its proper range.
C.H. SPURGEON
Give not thy tongue too great liberty, lest it take thee prisoner.
QUARLES
Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
PSALMS 17:3
Oh those sad lips of ours! We had need purpose to purpose if we would keep them from exceeding their bounds.
C.H. SPURGEON
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
JAMES 3:8
Since we all have a tongue, and since so much of our time is taken up with talk, a simple catalogue of the sins of the tongue is enough to terrify us.
ALEXANDER WHYTE
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
To bridle the tongue, then, is to so check and rein it in, and control it, as that its use shall be wholly conformed to the law of God.
CHARLES FINNEY
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
PROVERBS 4:23
A slip of the foot you may recover:
But a slip of the tongue you may never
get over.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Guard with careful diligence that dangerous member, the tongue, lest it utter evil, for that evil will recoil upon thee, and mar the enjoyment of thy life.
C.H. SPURGEON
A watch over words is better than over wealth.
LUCIAN
How wary does it behoove you to be in all your conversation; being forewarned by your Judge, that by your words you shall be justified, or by your words you shall be condemned!
JOHN WESLEY
All manner of tongue sins, we must, by constant watchfulness and steadfast resolution, put from us, put far from us, abstaining from all words that have an appearance of evil and fearing to learn any such words.
MATTHEW HENRY
Keep your tongue a prisoner and your body will go free.
SCOTTISH PROVERB
He who would be a Christian must be prepared to avoid evil and do good, to seek peace, to refrain his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking guile, and must commit himself to God.
MARTIN LUTHER
Our tongue always wants watching, for it is restive as an ill-broken horse; but especially must we hold it in when the sharp cuts of the Lords rod excite it to rebel.
C.H. SPURGEON
The fear of the Lord stood at the door of their souls, to examine every thought before it went in, and at the door of their lips, to examine every word before it went out, whereby they escaped a thousand sins
HENRY SMITH
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