For, "He who would love life, And see good days, Let him keep his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking deceit.
let him refrain his tongue from evil: (See 2:1.) The tongue is a restless evil (James 3:8), but a Christian can "refrain" (pauo) or "to stop, is used in the Active Voice, in the sense of making to cease, restraining in 1 Peter 3:10, of causing the tongue to refrain from evil" (Vine, Vol. III 265). The child of God must restrain his tongue from wrong (James 1:26; James 3:2).