85 Bible Verses about Tongue

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles!

So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, him shall you set by himself; likewise every one that bows down upon his knees to drink.

Can you draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down?

And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;

And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

And the fifth angel poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,

And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.

Does not the ear test words? and the mouth taste its food?

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

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

And you shall speak unto him, saying, Thus says the LORD, Have you killed, and also taken possession? And you shall speak unto him, saying, Thus says the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your blood, even yours.

And someone washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armor; according unto the word of the LORD which he spoke.

And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue clings to my jaws; and you have brought me to the dust of death.

If I do not remember you, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongues fail for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaks it unto them.

And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before, nor since you have spoken unto your servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. And the LORD said unto him, Who has made man's mouth? or who makes the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?

And I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, that you shall be dumb, and shall not be to them one who reproves: for they are a rebellious house.

And, behold, you shall be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because you believe not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their time. And the people waited for Zachariah, and marveled that he tarried so long in the temple. And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.

And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. And immediately his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly.

The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break forth, and streams in the desert.

And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and put them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: So that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.

And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, and praised God.

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

He that is void of wisdom despises his neighbor: but a man of understanding holds his peace.

He that has knowledge spares his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit. Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise: and he that shuts his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

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

If any man among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

[To the Chief Musician. 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 are before me.

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.

And my tongue shall speak of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.

Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

[To the Chief Musician upon shoshannim, for the Sons of Korah, a maschil, a song of loves.] My heart is overflowing with a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made concerning the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready scribe.

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.

My tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.

My tongue shall speak of your word: for all your commandments are righteousness.

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the nations, The LORD has done great things for them.

Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:

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

The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and his word was in my tongue.

The preparations of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

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

But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of justice, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate beforehand what you shall answer: For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to contradict nor resist.

I have sworn by myself, the word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

For it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of justice.

In the multitude of words there lacks not sin: but he that refrains his lips is wise. The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is of little worth.

There is one that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise brings health.

A man has joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

She opens her mouth with wisdom; and on her tongue is the law of kindness.

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

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

Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven by fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires. Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles!read more.
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 nature; and it is set on fire by hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. With this bless we God, even the Father; and with this curse we men, who are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.

You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue.

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. What shall be given unto you? or what shall be done unto you, you false tongue?

He that has a crooked heart finds no good: and he that has a perverse tongue falls into calamity.

Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait.

For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, says the LORD.

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

A lying tongue hates those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things: Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

Your tongue devises evil; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a seductress.

Against whom do you make sport? against whom do you open your mouth wide, and stick out the tongue? are you not children of transgression, offspring of falsehood,

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.