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 defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

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

The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

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

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

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, thou knowest it altogether.

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

For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit 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 preparations of the heart in man, and 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 by course; and let one interpret.

Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye 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?

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 hath spoken in my mouth.

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

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.

He that keepeth 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 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 that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is 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 ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.

{To the chief Musician, even 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 is 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 trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which 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 divide their tongues: 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 an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

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

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

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

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

Pleasant words are as an 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 say.

Go to, 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 sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

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

The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine 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.

Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.