Taming Your Tongue

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.

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 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. — read the full passage →

For, “He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.

That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit. — read the full passage →

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment. — read the full passage →

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →

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.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment. — read the full passage →

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?

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. — read the full passage →

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.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. — read the full passage →

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips”;

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. — read the full passage →

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia. — read the full passage →

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation. — read the full passage →

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them; — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries. — read the full passage →

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”