The Tongue

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. — read the full passage →

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

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

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

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

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

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. — read the full passage →

Do all things without murmurings and disputes,

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

For it is written, “‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’”

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

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

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

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, — 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 →

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

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

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 →

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

For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.

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

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;