Bible Verses about “holding your tongue”
The Bible contains 44 verses about holding your tongue across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
“For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.”
“Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”
“Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.”
“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.”
“The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.”
“One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.”
“He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.”
“As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.”
“This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.”
“he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.”
“Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.”
“And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.”
“But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.”
“My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.”
“You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.”
“They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.”
“But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:”
“He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.”
“Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.”
“I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.”
“These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.”
“Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.”
“Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.”
“Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn't have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.”
“If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.”
“Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.”
“Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.”
“I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.”
“I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.”
“I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.”
“This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.”
“Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.”
“Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.”
“And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.”
“But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.”
“With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.”
“For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn't stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.”
“So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!”
“For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.”
“Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?”
“Indeed, we put bits into the horses' mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.”
“Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.”
“Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.”