85 Bible Verses about Tongue

The tongue also is a little member. It boasts great things. Consider how great a forest fire a small fire kindles!

Gideon took the men to the water. Jehovah told him: Separate everyone who laps up the water with his tongue like a dog, from everyone who gets down on his knees to drink.

GOD CONTINUES TO QUESTION JOB:

Jesus took him aside from the crowd privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.

He called out: Father Abraham! Take pity on me! Please send Lazarus to dip his finger in some water and cool off my tongue. I am in torment in this fire!

Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast; and his kingdom became full of darkness. And they gnawed their tongues because of the pain.

So the Moabites said to the leaders of Midian: All those people will eventually eat up everything around us the same way cattle eat up the grass in a field. At that time Balak, son of Zippor, was king of Moab.

Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes food?

For the ear tests words like the palate tastes food.

so that you, my people, may bathe your feet in blood and the tongues of your dogs may lick the blood of your enemies.

Say to him: 'Jehovah says: Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage?' Then say: 'Jehovah says: Your blood will become the drink of dogs! You will go to the same place where the dogs drink the blood of Naboth.'

The chariot was washed at the pool of Samaria the bathing-place of the loose women. Dogs were drinking his blood there, as Jehovah said.

He hoped he could eat the bits of food that fell from the rich man's table. Then the dogs would come and lick his sores.

My power is dried up like pieces of broken pottery. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me down in the dust of death.

Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.

The poor and needy search for water, but there is none! Their tongues are parched with thirst. But I Jehovah will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink. The young children cry out for bread, and no man gives it to them.

Moses said: O Jehovah I am not a man of words. I have never been so, and am not now, even after what you have said to your servant. Talking is hard for me, and I am slow of tongue. Jehovah said to him: Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, Jehovah?

I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you cannot talk or criticize them, even though they are rebellious people.

You will be without voice or language till the day when these things happen. Your lack of faith in what I say has caused this. The people were waiting for Zechariah. They were surprised he was in the Temple for such a long time. When he came out he could not speak to them. They realized he saw a vision in the temple. Instead of talking he made signs to them.

Jesus took him aside from the crowd privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue. Looking up to heaven he sighed and said to him: Ephphatha, that is, be opened. His ears were opened. His tongue was freed and he spoke plainly.

They will not be impatient any longer, but they will act with understanding and will pay attention to the needs of the people.

The lame will leap and dance, and those who cannot speak will shout for joy. Streams of water will flow through the desert plain.

Many people came to him. They brought those who were lame, crippled, blind, mute, and many other people. They laid them down at his feet and he healed them. The people marveled as they saw the mute speak, the crippled and lame walk, and the blind see. They glorified the God of Israel.

Immediately his tongue loosed, his mouth opened and he spoke, blessing God.

Sin does not hide from a multitude of words. The wise controls his lips.

He who is void of wisdom despises his neighbor, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

The man with knowledge restrains his words. A man of understanding has a quiet spirit. Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise! He who shuts his mouth is esteemed a man of understanding.

He who guards his mouth and holds his tongue stays out of trouble.

If any man thinks he is religious, while he does not control his tongue but deceives his heart, this man's religion is vain (worthless) (useless).

Whoever would love life and see good days should keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

The nobles refrained from talking, and laid their hands on their mouths. The voices of princes were hushed. Their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.

Jehovah is in his Holy Temple. Let all the earth be silent before him.

my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.

([Psalm of David]) I said: I will guard my ways that I may not sin with my tongue. I will guard my mouth as with a muzzle while the wicked are in my presence.

O Jehovah, set a guard at my mouth. Keep watch over the door of my lips.

My tongue will declare your righteousness and your praise all day long.

That is why my heart is glad and I rejoice. My body rests securely.

Beautiful words fill my mind and stir my heart, as I compose this song for the king. Like the pen of a skilful writer (copyist) my tongue is ready with a poem.

Rescue (deliver) me from the bloodguilt of murder O God of my salvation. Let my tongue sing joyfully about your righteousness!

With my mouth I cried out to him. High praise was on my tongue.

My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long. They who want to harm me are disappointed and confounded.

Let my tongue sing of your word. For all your commandments are righteousness.

Then our mouths were filled with laughter and our tongues with joyful songs. Then the nations said: Jehovah has done spectacular things for them.

Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:

We bless Jehovah, the Father, with it. (Psalm 34:1) Then we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.

The Spirit of Jehovah spoke through me. His word was on my tongue.

Preparations of the heart and the answer of the tongue, is from Jehovah.

The Lord Jehovah will teach me what to say, so I will know how to encourage tired people. Morning after morning he will wake me to listen like a student.

Jehovah's Spirit fills me with power! I have judgment and mightiness to declare to Jacob, his evil behavior, to tell Israel about his sin!

Do not think about what you will say before it happens. I will give you ability to talk and words of wisdom, which your adversaries shall not be able to resist or refute.

I have bound myself with an oath. A word has gone out from my righteous mouth that will not be recalled. Every knee will bow to me and every tongue will swear allegiance.

It is written: As I live, says Jehovah, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will acknowledge (confess to) Jehovah. (Isaiah 45:23)

that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

The mouth of the righteous reflects on wisdom. His tongue speaks what is fair.

Sin does not hide from a multitude of words. The wise controls his lips. The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked has little worth.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword. The tongue of the wise brings a cure.

A man has joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken at the right time, how good it is!

She opens her mouth with wisdom and in her tongue is the law of kindness (she speaks kind things).

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it destroys life.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Those who love it will eat the fruit.

We put bits in horses' mouths that they may obey us. We guide their whole bodies. Look at ships. They are large and are driven by rough winds. Yet a very small rudder can control them, wherever the captain wills. The tongue also is a little member. It boasts great things. Consider how great a forest fire a small fire kindles!read more.
The tongue is like fire, the place of iniquity among our members. It defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of our life. It is set ablaze like the ever-burning fires in the Valley of Hinnom (Greek: Gehenna: symbolic of total destruction). Every kind of beast and bird, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. But no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil. It is full of deadly poison. We bless Jehovah, the Father, with it. (Psalm 34:1) Then we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God. Blessing and cursing come out of the same mouth! My brothers, these things should not be.

Keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from deceit.

There is nothing truthful in what they say! Their inward part is destruction. Their throat is an open grave. They flatter with their tongue.

You let your mouth speak evil. Your tongue plans deceit.

You love words that devour, O deceitful tongue.

O Jehovah, rescue me from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue. You deceitful tongue, what can Jehovah give you? What more can he do for you?

He who has a deceitful heart finds no good. He who has a perverse tongue falls into mischief.

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit! With the mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor, but inwardly he sets an ambush for him.

The rich men are full of violence! Her inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Their throat is an open grave. They have practiced deceit with their tongues. The poison of snakes is under their lips. (Psalm 5:9)

They bend their tongue like their bow. Lies and not truth prevail in the land. They move from evil to evil. They do not know me, says Jehovah.

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Wealth acquired by lying is fleeting vapor and a deadly pursuit.

A lying tongue hates those afflicted by it and a flattering mouth works ruin.

His mouth is full of curses, deception, and oppression. Trouble and wrongdoing are on the tip of his tongue.

Jehovah will destroy every flattering lip and every bragging tongue They say: We will overcome with our tongues. With lips such as ours, who can be our master?

Your tongue makes up wickedness. It is like a sharp razor, you master of deceit.

This will keep you from the evil woman and from the smooth tongue of an adulterous woman.

With whom are you effeminate (self-indulgent)? With whom do you open wide your mouth and offer your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of falsehood and deceit?

Your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers are desecrated with sin. You speak lies, and you mutter wicked things.