 | Jacques Nouet - 1846 - 318 pages
...Think earnestly of this, and henceforth be careful to speak oftener of JESUS and with JESUS. " Set2 a watch, O LORD, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips. Let not my heart be inclined to any evil thing," unworthy of a soul which professeth lo love Thee and... | |
 | Rev. Charles Bridges, M.A. - 1847 - 134 pages
...Mark the ill success in the neglect of waiting upon the Lord, Jos. ix. 14—23. XXIX. PSALM cxli. 8. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the...the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh, Matt. xii. 34. Because the tongue is an unruly evil, James iii. 5—7. Therefore, strict watch must be kept... | |
 | Thomas Kerchever Arnold - Devotional calendars - 1847 - 572 pages
...4. " Foolish talking or jesting . . . are not convenient, but rather giving of thanks." Ps. cxxxiii. 3. " Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips." Matt. xii. 34. " Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. How can ye, being evil, speak... | |
 | Edward Feilde - 1847 - 210 pages
...his own soul, degrades himself below the beasts that perish. Great cause have we all daily to pray " Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips." (7). COL. iii. 3. Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. WE all know how vain it is... | |
 | Thomas Wilson - Devotional exercises - 1847 - 324 pages
...11. " Foolish talking or jesting are not convenient, but rather giving of thanks." — Eph. v. 4. " Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips." — Ps. cxxxiii. 3. " Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. How can ye, being evil,... | |
 | Walter John Trower (bp. of Gibraltar.) - 1847 - 100 pages
...mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city."3 Frequently offer up the prayer, " Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips." ? Ps. cxli. 3. 2 Prov. xx.3. 3 Ibid. xvi. 32. " The path of the just is as the shining light, that... | |
 | Prayers, Richard Henry Cresswell - Prayers - 1877 - 306 pages
...never he surprised by sudden temptations or a careless spirit, nor ever return to folly or vanity. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips, that I offend not in tongue neither against piety or charity. Teach me to think of nothing; hut Thee... | |
 | Ernest Roland Wilberforce (bp. of Chichester.) - 1877 - 134 pages
...often speak in whisper, lest they bring down the avalanche ; for us at this stage the prayer was made, "Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips *." But you may say, " Here it is that I find my own chief temptation, it is the world that ensnares... | |
 | E. W - 1877 - 88 pages
...to watch over all my ways, that I may never be surprised by sudden temptations or a careless spirit. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips, that I offend not in my tongue, neither against piety nor charity. Teach me to think of nothing but... | |
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O let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing ; let me not be occupied in ungodly works with the men that work wickedness, lest I eat of such things as please them. 
