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 our nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

but no man can tame the tongue, which is an evil that cannot be restrained and is full of deadly poison.

The mouth of the just shall bring forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.

The tongue of the just is as choice silver, but the understanding of the wicked is worth little.

In the same manner, the tongue is a very small member and boasts of great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles!

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

For the word is not even upon my tongue, and, behold, O LORD, thou dost know it altogether.

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

For he that speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not unto men, but unto God, for no one understands him, even though by the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those that love it shall eat its fruit.

Of man are the preparations of the heart, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.

If anyone speaks in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

With it we bless God, even the Father; and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.

Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom do ye make a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? Are ye not rebellious sons, a lying seed of transgression,

Who have said, With our tongue we will 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 shall open my mouth, my tongue shall speak in my mouth.

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

Behold also the ships, which though they are so great are driven of fierce winds, yet they are governed with a very small rudder, wherever the governor desires.

He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens his lips often shall have calamity.

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

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

If wickedness was sweet in his mouth, if he hid it under his tongue,

There are those that speak like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is medicine.

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

Behold, we put bits (or restraint) in the horses' mouths to persuade them, and we govern their whole body.

So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue a clear and definite word, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak 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 bit while the wicked is against me.

yet in the congregation I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

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

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 they said, 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 consider 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 cloven 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 to be so.

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

Thy foot shall be dipped in the blood of thine enemies and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.

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

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

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

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

In the multitude of words there is no lack of rebellion, but he that refrains his lips is wise.

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

The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the wise that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary; he wakes up early, early shall he awaken my ear, that I might hear, as the wise.

So they shall make their own council and agreements to fall upon themselves; all that see them shall flee away.

But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silence in the congregation , and let him speak to himself and to God.

Therefore, tongues are for a sign, not to those that believe, but to those that do not believe; but prophecy is not for those that do not believe, but for those who believe.