50 Bible Verses about The Tongue

and the tongue is fire, and a world of wickedness. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth afire all that we have of nature, and is itself set afire, even of hell.

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

The mouth of the just will be talking of wisdom; but the tongue of the froward shall perish.

An innocent tongue is a noble treasure; but the heart of the ungodly is nothing worth.

even so the tongue is little member and boasteth great things. Behold how great a thing a little fire kindleth,

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

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

For in many things we sin all. If a man sin not in word, the same is a perfect man and able to tame all the body.

For he that speaketh with tongues speaketh not unto men, but unto God. For no man heareth him: Howbeit, in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

Death and life stand in the power of the tongue; he that loveth it, shall enjoy the fruit thereof.

A man may well purpose a thing in his heart; but the answer of the tongue cometh of the LORD.

If any man speak with tongues, let it be two at once - or at the most three at once - and that by course, and let another interpret it:

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

Wherein take ye your pleasure? Upon whom gape ye with your mouth, and blear out your tongue? Are ye not children of adultery, and a seed of dissimulation?

Which have said, "With our tongue will we prevail; we are they that ought to speak; Who is lord over us?"

My little children, let us not love in word, nor with the tongue: but with the deed, and of a truth:

Behold, I will open my mouth, and my tongue shall speak out of my jaws.

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips, that they speak no 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 violence of the governor will:

He that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life; but whoso speaketh unadvised, findeth harm.

He shall keep thee from the perilous tongue so that when trouble cometh, thou shalt not need to fear.

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

When wickedness was sweet in his mouth, he hid it under his tongue.

A slanderous person pricketh like a sword; but a wise man's tongue is wholesome.

for the mouth of the ungodly, yea and the mouth of the deceitful is opened upon me, and speak against me with false tongues.

Behold, we put bits into the horses' mouths that they should obey us, and we turn about all the body.

Even so, likewise, when ye speak with tongues, except ye speak words that have signification, how shall it be understood what is spoken? For ye shall but speak in the air.

{To the Chanter, for praising, a Psalm of David} I said, "I will take heed to my ways, that I offend not in my tongue. I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle, while the ungodly is in my sight."

Yet had I rather, in the congregation, to speak five words with my mind to the information of others, rather than ten thousand words with the tongue.

For like as the mouth tasteth the meats, so the ear proveth and discerneth the words.

Let the lying lips be put to silence, which cruelly, disdainfully, and despitefully speak against the righteous.

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

Destroy their tongues, O LORD, and divide them; for I see unrighteousness and strife in the city.

Then said they, "Come, let us imagine something against this Jeremiah." Yea, this did even the priests, to whom the law was committed: the Senators, that were the wisest: and the prophets, which wanted not the word of God. "Come," said they, "let us cut out his tongue, and let us not regard his words."

A fool's mouth is his own destruction, and his lips are the snare for his own soul.

If I pray with tongues, my spirit prayeth: but my mind is without fruit.

And there appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as they had been fire, and it sat upon each of them:

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

that they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the harlot:

that thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and that thy dogs may lick it up."

Fair words are a honeycomb, a refreshing of the mind, and health of the bones.

Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue; the same keepeth his soul from troubles.

Go therefore and I will be with thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say."

Come on, let us descend and mingle their tongue even there, that one understand not what another sayeth."

Where much babbling is, there must needs be offense; he that refraineth his lips is wisest of all.

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

The LORD God hath given me a well learned tongue, so that I can comfort them which are troubled; yea, and that in due season. He waked mine ear up betimes in the morning, as schoolmasters do; that I might hark.

Yea, their own tongues shall make them fall, insomuch that whoso seeth them, shall laugh them to scorn.

But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the congregation, 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. Contrariwise, prophesying serveth not for them that believe not: but for them which believe.