Bible Verses about “tongue”
The Bible contains 9 verses about 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.”
“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:”
“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.”
“¶ Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.”
“¶ In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips [is] wise.”
“¶ A wholesome tongue [is] a tree of life: but perverseness therein [is] a breach in the spirit.”