'Tongues' in the Bible

You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the conspiracies of man;You keep them secretly in a shelter from the strife of tongues.

Confuse, O Lord, divide their tongues,For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

They sharpen their tongues as a serpent;Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.

“For I know their works and their thoughts; the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory.

Behold, I am against the prophets,” declares the Lord, “who use their tongues and declare, ‘The Lord declares.’

These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;

And there appeared to them tongues as of fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them.

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.

Cretans and Arabs—we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God.”

For they were hearing them speaking with tongues and exalting God. Then Peter answered,

And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking with tongues and prophesying.

“Their throat is an open grave,With their tongues they keep deceiving,”“The poison of asps is under their lips”;

and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.

And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, various kinds of tongues.

All do not have gifts of healings, do they? All do not speak with tongues, do they? All do not interpret, do they?

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.

Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy; and greater is one who prophesies than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edifying.

But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation or of knowledge or of prophecy or of teaching?

I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all;

In the Law it is written, “By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, and even so they will not listen to Me,” says the Lord.

So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophecy is for a sign, not to unbelievers but to those who believe.

Therefore if the whole church assembles together and all speak in tongues, and ungifted men or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are mad?

Therefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in tongues.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands;

And they *said to me, “You must prophesy again concerning many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.”

Those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues because of pain,

And he *said to me, “The waters which you saw where the harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.