'Tongue' in the Bible

So Jesus taking him aside, apart from the crowd, put His fingers into his ears, and spat, and moistened his tongue;

And the man's ears were opened, and his tongue became untied, and he began to speak perfectly.

Instantly his mouth and his tongue were set free, and he began to speak and bless God.

So he cried aloud, and said, "'Father Abraham, take pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.'

and they saw tongues of what looked like fire distributing themselves over the assembly, and on the head of each person a tongue alighted.

For this reason my heart is glad and my tongue exults. My body also shall rest in hope.

for it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to Me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall make confession to God.'"

For he who speaks in an unknown tongue is not speaking to men, but to God; for no one understands him. Yet in the Spirit he is speaking secret truths.

He who speaks in an unknown tongue does good to himself, but he who prophesies does good to the Church.

If, however, I do not know the meaning of the particular language, I shall seem to the speaker of it, and he to me, to be merely talking some foreign tongue.

For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is barren.

I speak in a tongue, thank God, more than all of you;

but in the Church I would rather speak five words with my understanding--so as to instruct others also--than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

What then, brethren? Whenever you assemble, there is not one of you who is not ready either with a song of praise, a sermon, a revelation, a 'tongue,' or an interpretation. Let everything be done with a view to the building up of faith and character.

If there is speaking in an unknown tongue, only two or at the most three should speak, and they should do so one at a time, and one should interpret;

and that every tongue should confess that JESUS CHRIST is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.

If a man thinks that he is scrupulously religious, although he is not curbing his tongue but is deceiving himself, his religious service is worthless.

In the same way the tongue is an insignificant part of the body, but it is immensely boastful. Remember how a mere spark may set a vast forest in flames.

And the tongue is a fire. That world of iniquity, the tongue, is placed within us spotting and soiling our whole nature, and setting the whole round of our lives on fire, being itself set on fire by Gehenna.

But the tongue no man or woman is able to tame. It is an ever-busy mischief, and is full of deadly poison.

For "He who wishes to be well-satisfied with life and see happy days-- let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from deceitful words;