'Tongue' in the Bible
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaketh great things;
Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; Our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
He that slandereth not with his tongue, Nor doeth evil to his friend, Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor;
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile.
And my tongue shall talk of thy righteousness And of thy praise all the day long.
The mouth of the righteous talketh of wisdom, And his tongue speaketh justice.
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.
My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned: Then'spake I with my tongue:
My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter; I speak the things which I have made touching the king: My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation; And my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.
Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.
I cried unto him with my mouth, And he was extolled with my tongue.
That thou mayest crush them , dipping thy foot in blood, That the tongue of thy dogs may have its portion from thine enemies.
My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long; For they are put to shame, for they are confounded, that seek my hurt.
They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth.
But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto him with their tongue.
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.
Let my tongue sing of thy word; For all thy commandments are righteousness.
Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, And from a deceitful tongue.
What shall be given unto thee, and what shall be done more unto thee, Thou deceitful tongue?
Then was our mouth filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing: Then said they among the nations, Jehovah hath done great things for them.
Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, If I remember thee not; If I prefer not Jerusalem Above my chief joy.
For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.
They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders poison is under their lips. Selah