| 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 the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone. |
| 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. | Because if you confess with your lips that 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. | Without counsel, plans go wrong, but with many advisers they succeed. |
| 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 helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. |
| Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. | Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body. |
| Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples. | O give thanks to the Lord, call on his name, make known 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 I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am 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 goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and succeed in the thing for which I sent it. |
| 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 to you, 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 in expressing personal opinion. |
| 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 “Those who desire life and desire to see good days, let them keep their tongues from evil and their lips from speaking deceit; let them turn away from evil and do good; let them seek peace and pursue it.” |
| Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. | Deliver me, O Lord, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. |
| With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge. | With their mouths the godless would destroy their neighbors, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered. |
| A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings. | A fool's lips bring strife, and a fool's mouth invites a flogging. |
| In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty. | In all toil there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty. |
| Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad. | Anxiety weighs down the human heart, but a good word cheers it up. |
| 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 what is perverse. |
| 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 bring you to trial and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say; but say whatever is given you at that time, for it is not 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 any think they are religious, and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their 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 refrain from strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel. |
| Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you. | Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you. |
| For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether. | Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it completely. |
| He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool. | Lying lips conceal hatred, and whoever utters slander is a fool. |
| Excellent speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince. | Fine speech is not becoming to a fool; still less is false speech to a ruler. |
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