Psalms 34:13
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Psalms 34:13 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Psalms 34:13 is a verse from the book of Psalms in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Psalms 34:13 — KJV
“Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.”
— Psalms 34:13 (KJV)
Psalms 34:13 in Context — About the Book of Psalms
Psalms is the Bible's prayer book — 150 songs covering every emotion a praying person will ever feel: praise, panic, gratitude, grief, fury, and quiet trust. For three thousand years believers have borrowed these words when their own run out. If you can feel it, there is a psalm for it.
Cross-References for Psalms 34:13
“For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:”
Shares key themes with Psalms 34:13: tongue, evil, lips
“To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. of the...: or, of the strange tongue”
Shares key themes with Psalms 34:13: keep, tongue, evil
“Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,”
Shares key themes with Psalms 34:13: evil, speaking, guile
“Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.”
Shares key themes with Psalms 34:13: evil, lips
“That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.”
Shares key themes with Psalms 34:13: keep, lips
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