| When you pray do not go on babbling endlessly as the pagans do, for they believe that they are more likely to be heard because of their many words. | But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. |
| Pleasing words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and affording health to the body. | Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. |
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| Give thanks to the Lord, invoke his name; proclaim his deeds among the peoples. | O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people. |
| 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. | 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. |
| Let the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart find favor in your sight, O Lord, 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 takes no pleasure in understanding but only delights in expressing his own opinions. | A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. |
| Deliver me, O Lord, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues. | Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. |
| With his mouth the godless man seeks to ruin his neighbor, but knowledge enables the righteous to be delivered. | An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered. |
| The lips of a fool cause strife, and his mouth provokes a flogging. | A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. |
| Diligent labor always yields profit, but idle conversation only leads to poverty. | In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. |
| Anxiety in the human 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. |
| 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. | 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. |
| Then keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling lies. | Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. |
| The lips of the righteous utter words of kindness, but the mouth of the wicked knows only how to pervert. | The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness. |
| 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. | 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. |
| If anyone thinks that he is religious but does not restrain his tongue, he is deceiving himself, and his religion is worthless. | If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. |
| It is honorable to avoid strife, but every fool is quarrelsome. | It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. |
| Turn away from the mouth that deceives and keep your distance from lips that mislead. | Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. |
| A word is not even on my tongue and you, O Lord, are completely aware of it. | For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. |
| Lying lips conceal hatred, and anyone who slanders another is a fool. | He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool. |
| Fine words are not becoming to a fool, and much less are false words to a noble. | Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince. |
| The tongue of the just man is like pure silver; the heart of the wicked is without worth. | The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth. |
| The heavens were made by the word of the Lord, and all their host by the breath of his mouth. | By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. |
| Speak out and pronounce righteous judgments; defend the rights of the wretched and the poor. | Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. |
| As long as I remained silent, my body wasted away as the result of my groaning throughout the day. | When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. |
