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:

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 →

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

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

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

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

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;

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

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

For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God; for no man understandeth; but in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

Wherefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

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

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.

And when the day of Pentecost was now come, they were all together in one place. — read the full passage →

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

If any man speaketh in a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most three, and that in turn; and let one interpret:

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

Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away.

The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, concerning all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, — read the full passage →

And these signs shall accompany them that believe: in my name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues;

For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,

Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to the unbelieving: but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to them that believe.

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 →

And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.

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

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

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

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. — read the full passage →

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

He that speaketh in a tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.

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

If therefore the whole church be assembled together and all speak with tongues, and there come in men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that ye are mad?

howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

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:

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

And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits: to another divers kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues:

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