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 defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire from hell.

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

The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adder's poison is under their lips. Selah.

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

For in many things we all offend. If any man offendeth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

For he that speaketh in an unknown language, speaketh not to men, but to God: for no man understandeth him; yet in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit of it.

The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, are from the LORD.

If any man speaketh in an unknown language, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

With this we bless God, even the Father; and with this we curse men, who are made after the similitude of God.

Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and thrust 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, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.

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

Behold also the ships, which though they are so great, and are driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small helm, withersoever the governor willeth.

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

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

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

Though wickedness may be sweet in his mouth, though he may hide it under his tongue;

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

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

Behold, we put bits in the mouths of horses, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will speak into the air.

To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. 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 is before me.

Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown language.

For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth 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 said they, 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 give heed 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 an unknown language, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

And there appeared to them, cloven tongues as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

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

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

That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thy enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.

Pleasant words are as a honey-comb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Whoever keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

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

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

In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that restraineth his lips is wise.

I thank my God, I speak in languages more than ye all:

The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth my ear to hear as the learned.

So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

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

Wherefore languages are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them who believe.