50 Bible Verses about The Tongue

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

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

The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom: but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.

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

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles!

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

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether.

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

For he that speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not unto men, but unto God: for no man understands him; but in the 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 preparations of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that in turn; and let one interpret.

With this bless we God, even the Father; and with this curse we men, who are made after the similitude of God.

Against whom do you make sport? against whom do you open your mouth wide, and stick out the tongue? are you not children of transgression, offspring 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 in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue has spoken in my mouth.

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

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven by fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.

He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

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

There is one that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise brings health.

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

So likewise you, except you utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for you shall speak into 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 bridle, while the wicked are before me.

Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

For the ear tests words, as the mouth tastes food.

Let the lying lips be put to silence; who speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

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

Destroy, O Lord, and confuse their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Then said they, Come, and let us devise plots 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 attack 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 an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

And there appeared unto them separated tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a seductress.

That your foot may be dipped in the blood of your enemies, and the tongue of your dogs in the same.

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

Whosoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall say.

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

In the multitude of words there lacks not sin: but he that refrains his lips is wise.

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

The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as the learned.

So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

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

Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serves not for them that believe not, but for them that believe.