Taming Your Tongue

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

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.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

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.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

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 →

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

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

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

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 →

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

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 →

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”

The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.

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

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

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.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

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.

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

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

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

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?

The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

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 →

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.

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.

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding. — read the full passage →

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

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me,” says Yahweh.

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.

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →

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 →

surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long.

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”;

The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”

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 →

For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes. — read the full passage →

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — 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 →

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

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 →

Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy. — read the full passage →

He who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. — 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.”

With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.

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.

The north wind produces rain: so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

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

Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.

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

Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own. — 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 →

Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill? — read the full passage →

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

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

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

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 →

Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him. — read the full passage →

He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.

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 →

He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies. — read the full passage →

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