| 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. | Conduct yourselves wisely toward outsiders, making the most of your opportunity. Let your speech always be gracious and seasoned with wisdom, so that you will know how to respond properly to all. |
| 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. | If you confess with your lips, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. |
| Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established. | Plans miscarry when counsel is lacking, but they succeed when there are many counselors. |
| 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. | In the same way, even the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs that cannot be put into words. |
| Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. | Pleasing words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and affording health to the body. |
| Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples. | Give thanks to the Lord, invoke his name; proclaim his deeds among the peoples. |
| 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. | If in speaking I use human tongues and angelic as well, but do not have love, I am nothing more than a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. |
| 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 issues forth from my mouth. It will not return to me unfulfilled, but it will accomplish my purpose and achieve what I sent it forth to do. |
| 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 thoughts of my heart find favor in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer. |
| A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion. | A fool takes no pleasure in understanding but only delights in expressing his own opinions. |
| 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: “If anyone wishes to love life and to experience good days, he must restrain his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech. He must turn away from evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it.” |
| Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. | Deliver me, O Lord, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues. |
| With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge. | With his mouth the godless man seeks to ruin his neighbor, but knowledge enables the righteous to be delivered. |
| A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings. | The lips of a fool cause strife, and his mouth provokes a flogging. |
| In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty. | Diligent labor always yields profit, but idle conversation only leads to poverty. |
| Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad. | Anxiety in the human heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad. |
| The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse. | The lips of the righteous utter words of kindness, but the mouth of the wicked knows only how to pervert. |
| 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. | When they arrest you and bring you to trial, do not be concerned beforehand about what you are to say. Simply say whatever is given to you when that time comes, for it will not be you who speak but the Holy Spirit. |
| 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 whatever you do in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. |
| If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless. | If anyone thinks that he is religious but does not restrain his tongue, he is deceiving himself, and his religion is worthless. |
| It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling. | It is honorable to avoid strife, but every fool is quarrelsome. |
| Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you. | Turn away from the mouth that deceives and keep your distance from lips that mislead. |
| For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether. | A word is not even on my tongue and you, O Lord, are completely aware of it. |
| He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool. | Lying lips conceal hatred, and anyone who slanders another is a fool. |
| Excellent speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince. | Fine words are not becoming to a fool, and much less are false words to a noble. |
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