Proverbs 13:3
He that kepeth his mouth, kepeth his lyfe: but who so rashlye openeth his lippes, destroyeth hym selfe.
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Judges 16:11He aunswered her: Yf they bynde me with newe ropes that neuer were occupied, I shall be weake, and be as an other man.
Proverbs 10:19Where much babblyng is, there must needes be offence: and he that refrayneth his lippes, is wyse.
Proverbs 14:3In the mouth of the foolishe is the rodde of pryde: but the lippes of the wyse wyll preserue them.
Proverbs 18:21Death and life are in the instrument of the tongue, and they that loue it, shall eate the fruite thereof.
Proverbs 21:23Who so kepeth his mouth and his tongue, the same kepeth his soule from troubles.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:3
2 A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence. Note, 1. If that which comes from within, out of the heart, be good, and from a good treasure, it will return with advantage. Inward comfort and satisfaction will be daily bread; nay, it will be a continual feast to those who delight in that communication which is to the use of edifying. 2. Violence done will recoil in the face of him that does it: The soul of the transgressors that harbours and plots mischief,… Read the whole commentary →