50 Bible Verses about The Tongue

and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And the tongue of frowardness is cut out.

The tongue of the righteous is chosen silver, The heart of the wicked -- as a little thing.

so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!

They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder is under their lips. Selah.

For there is not a word in my tongue, Lo, O Jehovah, Thou hast known it all!

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

for he who is speaking in an unknown tongue -- to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets;

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

Of man are arrangements of the heart, And from Jehovah an answer of the tongue.

if an unknown tongue any one do speak, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret;

with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God;

Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom enlarge ye the mouth? Prolong ye the tongue? Are not ye children of transgression? a false seed?

Who said, 'By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?'

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

Lo, I pray thee, I have opened my mouth, My tongue hath spoken in the palate.

Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.

lo, also the ships, being so great, and by fierce winds being driven, are led about by a very small helm, whithersoever the impulse of the helmsman doth counsel,

Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips -- ruin to him!

When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh.

O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!

Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue,

A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.

For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, Against me they have opened, They have spoken with me -- A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!

lo, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and their whole body we turn about;

so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give -- how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air.

To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. I have said, 'I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked is before me.'

but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an unknown tongue.

For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.

Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.

but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man;

Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.

And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.

The mouth of a fool is ruin to him, And his lips are the snare of his soul.

for if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit doth pray, and my understanding is unfruitful.

and there appeared to them divided tongues, as it were of fire; it sat also upon each one of them,

out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

So that thou dashest thy foot in blood, In the blood of enemies -- the tongue of Thy dogs.'

Sayings of pleasantness are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.

Whoso is keeping his mouth and his tongue, Is keeping from adversities his soul.

and now, go, and I -- I am with thy mouth, and have directed thee that which thou speakest;'

Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'

In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips is wise.

I give thanks to my God -- more than you all with tongues speaking --

The Lord Jehovah hath given to me The tongue of taught ones, To know to aid the weary by a word, He waketh morning by morning, He waketh for me an ear to hear as taught ones.

And they cause him to stumble, Against them is their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.

and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.

so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy is not for the unbelieving, but for the believing,