Proverbs 13:3 KJV
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Proverbs 13:3, King James Version
In context
2 A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
3 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Cross-references
- Proverbs 21:23 Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
- Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
- Proverbs 18:7 A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
- James 3:2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
- Matthew 12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.