The Tongue

If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain.

For, He that would love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile:

but the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.

And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

Be not manyof youteachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment. — read the full passage →

So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!

And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. — read the full passage →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God:

Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not 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 forth out of the heart; and they defile the man.

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

Not that which entereth into the mouth defileth the man; but that which proceedeth out of the mouth, this defileth the man.

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

but I say unto you, that every one who is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council; and whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of the hell of fire.

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

For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind: — read the full passage →

Be not manyof youteachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment.

Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

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

but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:

Be not manyof youteachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment. — read the full passage →

out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritualgifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. — read the full passage →

Do all things without murmurings and questionings:

My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, And every tongue shall confess to God.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

Now if we put the horses’ bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.

Now if we put the horses’ bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also. — read the full passage →

because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:

Put them in mind to be in subjection to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto every good work, — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.

For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind:

So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! — read the full passage →

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

Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

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

Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritualgifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

And he calleth unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits;

For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;