19 Bible Verses about The Tongue

And the tongue is a fire. That world of iniquity, the tongue, is placed within us spotting and soiling our whole nature, and setting the whole round of our lives on fire, being itself set on fire by Gehenna.

But the tongue no man or woman is able to tame. It is an ever-busy mischief, and is full of deadly poison.

In the same way the tongue is an insignificant part of the body, but it is immensely boastful. Remember how a mere spark may set a vast forest in flames.

For we often stumble and fall, all of us. If there is any one who never stumbles in speech, that man has reached maturity of character and is able to curb his whole nature.

For he who speaks in an unknown tongue is not speaking to men, but to God; for no one understands him. Yet in the Spirit he is speaking secret truths.

If there is speaking in an unknown tongue, only two or at the most three should speak, and they should do so one at a time, and one should interpret;

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in God's likeness.

Dear children, let us not love in words only nor with the lips, but in deed and in truth.

So too with ships, great as they are, and often driven along by strong gales, yet they can be steered with a very small rudder in whichever direction the caprice of the man at the helm chooses.

Remember that we put the horses' bit into their mouths to make them obey us, and so we turn their whole bodies round.

And so with you; if with the living voice you fail to utter intelligible words, how will people know what you are saying? You will be talking to the winds.

but in the Church I would rather speak five words with my understanding--so as to instruct others also--than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

But the things that come out of the mouth proceed from the heart, and it is these that defile the man.

For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is barren.

and they saw tongues of what looked like fire distributing themselves over the assembly, and on the head of each person a tongue alighted.

Out of the same mouth there proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, this ought not to be.

I speak in a tongue, thank God, more than all of you;

or if there is no interpreter, let the man with the gift be silent in the Church, speaking to himself and to God.

This shows that the gift of tongues is intended as a sign not to those who believe but to unbelievers, but prophecy is intended not for unbelievers but for those who believe.