50 Bible Verses about The Tongue
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And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.
But no man is able to tame the tongue of men, an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
The mouth of a righteous man brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut off.
The tongue of a righteous man is choice silver. The heart of the wicked is little worth.
So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles.
They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent. Adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
For we all stumble in many things. If any man does not stumble in word, this is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.
For he who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men, but to God, for no man hears, but in spirit he speaks mysteries.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.
If any man speaks in a tongue, be according to two, or at the most three, and in succession. And let one interpret.
By it we bless the God and Father, and by it we curse men, who were made according to a likeness of God.
Against whom do ye sport yourselves, against whom ye make a wide mouth, and put 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, we should not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.
Behold also the ships, being so great and driven by fierce winds, are guided about by a very small rudder, wherever the impulse of the man who steers determines.
He who guards his mouth keeps his life. He who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.
Thou shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue. Neither shall thou be afraid of destruction when it comes.
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,
There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.
for they have opened against me the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
Behold we put bits into the mouths of horses for them to obey us, and we guide about their whole body.
So also ye, unless ye give understandable speech by the tongue, how will that which is spoken be known? For ye will be talking 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 bridle while the wicked man is before me.
Yet in an assembly I would rather speak five words with my intellect, so that I might also make others understand, than countless words in a tongue.
Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak against the righteous man insolently, with pride and contempt.
But the things coming out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and those things defile the man.
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 gi
For if I pray in a tongue my spirit prays, but my intellect is unfruitful.
And there appeared to them dividing tongues, as of fire, and they settled upon each one of them.
Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and curse. My brothers, these things ought not to happen this way.
to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the stranger's tongue.
that thou may dash thy foot in blood, that the tongue of thy dogs may have its portion from enemies.
Pleasant words are a honeycomb: Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand each other's speech.
Transgression is not lacking in the multitude of words, but he who refrains his lips does wisely.
Lord LORD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning. He awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them. All who see them shall wag the head.
But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silence in an assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.
Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving. But prophesying is not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.
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And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.
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Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.
For we all stumble in many things. If any man does not stumble in word, this is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. Behold we put bits into the mouths of horses for them to obey us, and we guide about their whole body. Behold also the ships, being so great and driven by fierce winds, are guided about by a very small rudder, wherever the impulse of the man who steers determines. read more.
So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles. And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell. For every species, both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by the human species. But no man is able to tame the tongue of men, an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. By it we bless the God and Father, and by it we curse men, who were made according to a likeness of God. Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and curse. My brothers, these things ought not to happen this way. Does the spring pour out from the same opening the sweet and the bitter? A fig tree, my brothers, cannot make olives, or a grapevine figs. In the same way, no one spring makes water salty and sweet.
