The Tongue

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

For he that will 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 an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. — read the full passage →

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

But 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 unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

But 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 goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

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

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

My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

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

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

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. — read the full passage →

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

Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. — read the full passage →

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

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

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

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. — read the full passage →

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, — read the full passage →

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

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode 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 of it.

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

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

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

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

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

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

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: