Proverbs 21:23 Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
If you control your tongue, then you will stay away from evil. Many conditional promises are based on the condition of guarding your words. Watch what you say, and how you say it, so that you may avoid various kinds of troubles. The tongue is a gateway to evil. Ask the Lord to set an angel at the door of your mouth so that you don’t say things that cause trouble.
The troubles from the tongue come back to the soul, that is, the self, made up of mind, will, and emotions. Others may suffer from what we say, but the troubles come back upon our selves also. Therefore, we believe the promise that if we keep our tongue then we will keep our soul.
After we do get our souls into troubles, we need to ask the Lord to deliver us from the evil of the troubles we got ourselves unto: Deliver us from evil. It turns out we probably need to pray this every day, since the tongue gets us into lots of trouble. He daily and richly forgives all sins, thereby keeping our soul from troubles and delivering us from evil. Thank God, He is in the business of cleaning up our mess, fixing what’s broken, finding what’s lost, and restoring what we ruined.
Our God will save the soul from troubles, bind up the fragmented soul, repair broken relationships, and restore us to full fellowship with God. Meanwhile, we ask Jesus to keep the tongue.