| In praying, don’t use vain repetitions as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking. | But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies. | Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 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 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. |
| 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. |
| By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made: all their army 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. |
| He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool. | He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool. |
| Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy. | Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. |
| 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. |
| Excellent speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince. | Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince. |
| 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. |
Bible verse of the day
A fool despises his father’s correction,but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.