50 Bible Verses about The Tongue

And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

But the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison.

The mouth of the righteous bringeth forth wisdom; But the perverse tongue shall be cut off.

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

So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!

They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders poison is under their lips. Selah

For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.

For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God; for no man understandeth; but in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

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

The plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah.

If any man speaketh in a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most three, and that in turn; and let one interpret:

Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God:

Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and put 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?

My Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

Behold now, I have opened my mouth; My tongue hath spoken in my mouth.

Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile.

Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth.

He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his life; But he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, And from a deceitful tongue.

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

There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.

Now if we put the horses bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.

So also ye, unless ye utter by the tongue speech easy to understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air.

I said, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is before me.

howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

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

Let the lying lips be dumb, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and they defile the man.

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the 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 his destruction, And his lips are the snare of his soul.

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

And there appeared unto them tongues parting asunder, like as of fire; and it sat upon each one of them.

out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.

That thou mayest crush them , dipping thy foot in blood, That the tongue of thy dogs may have its portion from thine enemies.

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

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

Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt speak.

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 refraineth his lips doeth wisely.

I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all:

The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught.

So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.

but if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to the unbelieving: but prophesying is for a sign , not to the unbelieving, but to them that believe.