Bible Verses About Our Tongue

(To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.) I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

(To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.) I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.

Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

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.

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.

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

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.

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.

My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

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 he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: