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:

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.

But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

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.

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.

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

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 →

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

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.

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

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

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from 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 an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

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

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.

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

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

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

If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

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 →

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

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

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

And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; 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 them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.

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 →

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

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.

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.

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

To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

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