χεῖλος

This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

In the law it is written With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. giving: Gr. confessing to

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: