51 Bible Verses About Tongue

Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

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

And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.

Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.

For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.

That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.

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.

The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.

Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

So he brought down the people unto the water: and the Lord said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.

The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

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

Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.