| Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. | Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. |
| That if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. | That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. |
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| Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established. | Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established. |
| In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered. | Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. |
| Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. | Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. |
| If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. | Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. |
| Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples. | O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people. |
| So is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do. | So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. |
| A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion. | A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. |
| Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. | Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. |
| For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit. Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.” | 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: Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. |
| With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge. | An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered. |
| Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer. | Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer. |
| A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings. | A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. |
| In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty. | In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. |
| Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad. | Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. |
| The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse. | The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness. |
| When they lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be anxious beforehand or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. | But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost. |
| Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. | And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. |
| Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you. | Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. |
| It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling. | It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. |
| Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. | And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. |
| For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether. | For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. |
| The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth. | The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth. |
| When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. | When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. |
