Bible Verses about “the tongue”
The Bible contains 30 verses about the tongue across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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:”
“For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.”
“Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.”
“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.”
“¶ My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.”
“But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.”
“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.”
“This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish.”
“¶ 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.”
“And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.”
“¶ He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: [but] he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.”
“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?”
“¶ Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.”
“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.”