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Scripture: “Righteous lips are the delight of kings, and they love him who speaks what is right.” (Proverbs 16:13)

I’ve been looking for little green men. Actually, at images representing extra-terrestrial aliens, as imagined by artists and Hollywood. It’s hardly a major revelation to point out that many movie aliens bear a strong likeness to humans, unless they are drawn in animation.
If aliens really do exist, then, what do they look like? Are they little green men in space suits? Do they look like the drawings of the aliens that supposedly crashed near Roswell, NM? If so, they are about four feet tall, skinny, with long arms, big round head about the size of a basketball, tiny nose, and big eyes about three inches wide which are shaped like a football. Do aliens have lips? These examples seemed to have a small mouth and, possibly, thin lips, or no lips at all, as far as I can tell.
Well defined lips seem to be a common characteristic of humans. According to Genesis 1:27, “God created man in His own image.” But what about all the other intelligent, cosmic inhabitants? Hollywood has created aliens in man’s image, convenient for storytelling, because you already know how to read their intentions. Their behavioral cues are familiar, and you can tell if their game plan is to be amorous or aggressive.
The Bible has a lot to say regarding lips. They can be unclean, stammering, flattering, perverse, righteous false, or burning. “An evildoer gives heed to false lips; a liar listens eagerly to a spiteful tongue.” (Proverbs 17:4) We are counseled to “Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.” (Proverbs 4:24)
Righteous lips may be used for prayer, praise, vows, singing God’s judgments and spiritual fruitfulness. “Righteous lips are the delight of kings, and they love him who speaks what is right.” (Proverbs 16:13)
When Isaiah saw the Lord, “sitting on a throne, high and lifted up,” and heard seraphim crying out, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts,” he confessed that he was a man of unclean lips, dwelling in the midst of a people of unclean lips. In this instance, his iniquity was taken away, and his sin was purged by the touch of a hot coal to his lips. (Isaiah 6:1-7)
Perhaps extraterrestrials can speak whatever they choose to without violating Biblical principles, if they truly have no lips. However, I think the same rules apply to them as to us humans, because “lips” is a metaphor for speaking, as is reference to the tongue and the mouth.
James notes that “Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.” (James 3:10) Peter, likewise, counsels that “He who would love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.” (1 Peter 3:10)
People judge us by what we say, and how we say it. Our lips bear witness to our innermost thoughts. Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Be sure you are filled with His Spirit, and have no attitude contrary to love. “For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their prayers; but the the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.” (1 Peter 3:12)

Note: Biblical references are from the New King James Version