50 Bible Verses about The Tongue

and the tongue is fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell.

but the tongue can no one among men tame; it is an unsettled evil, full of death-bringing poison.

The mouth of a righteous man putteth forth wisdom; but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

The tongue of the righteous man is as choice silver; the heart of the wicked is little worth.

Thus also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles!

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

For there is not yet a word on my tongue, but lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.

For we all often offend. If any one offend not in word, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body too.

For he that speaks with a tongue does not speak to men but to God: for no one hears; but in spirit he speaks mysteries.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

The purposes of the heart are of man, but the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah.

If any one speak with a tongue, let it be two, or at the most three, and separately, and let one interpret;

Therewith bless we the Lord and Father, and therewith curse we men made after the likeness of God.

Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom do ye make a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? Are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail, our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

Children, let us not love with word, nor with tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Behold now, I have opened my mouth, my tongue speaketh in my palate,

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile;

Behold also the ships, which are so great, and driven by violent winds, are turned about by a very small rudder, wherever the pleasure of the helmsman will.

He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his soul; destruction shall be to him that openeth wide his lips.

Thou shalt be hidden from the scourge of the tongue; and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

Jehovah, deliver my soul from the lying lip, from the deceitful tongue.

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth and he hide it under his tongue,

There is that babbleth like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.

For the mouth of the wicked man and the mouth of deceit are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue,

Behold, we put the bits in the mouths of the horses, that they may obey us, and we turn round their whole bodies.

Thus also ye with the tongue, unless ye give a distinct speech, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking to the air.

{To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.} I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a muzzle, while the wicked is before me.

but in the assembly I desire to speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.

For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food.

Let the lying lips become dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

but the things which go forth out of the mouth come out of the heart, and those defile man.

Swallow them up, Lord; divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

And they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor word from the prophet. Come and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

A fool's mouth is destruction to him, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

For if I pray with a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

And there appeared to them parted tongues, as of fire, and it sat upon each one of them.

Out of the same mouth goes forth blessing and cursing. It is not right, my brethren, that these things should be thus.

to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

That thou mayest dip thy foot in blood: the tongue of thy dogs has its portion from enemies.

Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health for the bones.

Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

And now go, and I will be with thy mouth, and will teach thee what thou shalt say.

Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression; but he that restraineth his lips doeth wisely.

I thank God I speak in a tongue more than all of you:

The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the instructed, that I should know how to succour by a word him that is weary. He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the instructed.

By their own tongue they are made to fall over one another: all that see them shall flee away.

but if there be no interpreter, let him be silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.

So that tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to unbelievers; but prophecy, not to unbelievers, but to those who believe.