Bible Verses about “tame your tongue”
Found 25 verses (ordered by relevance) about “tame your tongue” in the KJV version of the Bible
“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”
“¶ A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.”
“If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain.”
“¶ Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.”
“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:”
“Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.”
“¶ My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.”
“‹Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.›”
“And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.”
“But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.”
“¶ There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.”
“Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.”
“¶ Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.”
“For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same [is] a perfect man, [and] able also to bridle the whole body.”
“¶ In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips [is] wise.”
“Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!”
“Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.”
“For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:”
“¶ A wholesome tongue [is] a tree of life: but perverseness therein [is] a breach in the spirit.”
“Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet [water] and bitter?”
“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 of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.”
“Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.”
“Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.”
“‹O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.›”