50 Bible Verses about The Tongue
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And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So the tongue is set among our members, spotting all the body and inflaming the course of nature, and being inflamed by hell.
But no one can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom; but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.
The tongue of the just is as choice silver; the heart of the wicked is worth little.
Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold how little a fire kindles how large a forest!
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 Jehovah, You know it altogether.
For in many things we all offend. If anyone does not offend in word, the same is a full-grown man, able also to bridle the whole body.
For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. For no one 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.
The ordering of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from Jehovah.
If one speaks in a language, let it be by two, or at the most three, and in succession. And let one interpret.
By this we bless God, even the Father. And by this we curse men, who have come into being according to the image of God.
Of whom are you making sport? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and draw out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, a lying seed,
that has said, With our tongue we shall do much; our lips are our own; who is lord over us?
My children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
Behold also the ships being so great, and driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small rudder, where the impulse of him steering desires.
He who keeps his mouth keeps his life; he who opens his lips wide, it is ruin to him.
You shall be hidden from the whip of the tongue; neither shall you be afraid of robbery when it comes.
Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue;
There are those who speak like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; they spoke against me with a lying tongue.
Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.
So also you, if you do not give a clear word through the language, how will it be known what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air.
To the Chief Musician, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways so that I do not sin with my tongue; I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked are before me.
yet in a church I desire to speak five words with my mind, so that I might also teach others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Let the lying lips be put to silence; the lips which speak proudly against the righteous, with pride and scorn.
But the things which come out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile the man.
Swallow up, O Jehovah, and divide their tongues; for I have seen violence and fighting in the city.
Then they said, Come and let us plot schemes against Jeremiah. For the Law shall not perish from the priest, nor wisdom from the wise, nor the Word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention 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 a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.
And tongues as of fire appeared to them, being distributed; and it sat upon each of them.
Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
to keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
so that your foot may be dipped in the blood of your enemies, and the tongue of your dogs in it.
Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
And now go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say.
Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they cannot understand one another's speech.
In the multitude of words, sin is not lacking; but he who holds back his lips is wise.
The Lord Jehovah has given Me the tongue of the learned, to know to help the weary with a word. He wakens morning by morning, He wakens the ear to hear as the learned.
So they shall be confounded; their tongue falls on themselves; everyone seeing them shall flee.
But if there is no interpreter, let him be silent in a church; and let him speak to himself and to God.
So that tongues are not a sign to those who believe, but to those who do not believe. But prophesying is not to those who do not believe, but to those who believe.
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And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So the tongue is set among our members, spotting all the body and inflaming the course of nature, and being inflamed 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 in many things we all offend. If anyone does not offend in word, the same is a full-grown man, able also to bridle the whole body. Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body. Behold also the ships being so great, and driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small rudder, where the impulse of him steering desires. read more.
Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold how little a fire kindles how large a forest! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So the tongue is set among our members, spotting all the body and inflaming the course of nature, and being inflamed by hell. For every kind of animals, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of sea-animals, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. But no one can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. By this we bless God, even the Father. And by this we curse men, who have come into being according to the image of God. Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Does a fountain send forth at the same hole the sweet and the bitter? Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olive berries; or a vine, figs? So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.
