Bible Verses about “the mouth”
The Bible contains 23 verses about the mouth across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
“Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.”
“with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:”
“If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.”
“For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
“However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.”
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.”
“Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.”
“That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."”
“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.”
“So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!”
“Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.”
“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”
“Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.”
“God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?”
“I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.”
“You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.”
“The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.”
“The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.”
“Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.”
“I have put my words in your mouth, and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, 'You are my people.'"”