Bible Verses About Tame Your Tongue
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for tame your tongue, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 9,038 votes, led by James 1:26. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Tame Your Tongue
James 1:26256 votes
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.
Proverbs 15:4241 votes
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Proverbs 12:18235 votes
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Psalms 141:3232 votes
Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
James 3:8229 votes
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Ephesians 4:29226 votes
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.
Proverbs 18:21218 votes
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Proverbs 21:23201 votes
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Proverbs 15:1197 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs 10:19190 votes
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
1 Peter 3:10190 votes
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:
Matthew 15:11187 votes
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
James 3:1-12165 votes
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
James 3:5147 votes
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
Psalms 34:13146 votes
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Matthew 12:34143 votes
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
James 3:2140 votes
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.
James 3:6140 votes
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.
Proverbs 17:28120 votes
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
James 3:1-18118 votes
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Proverbs 26:20114 votes
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
James 3:1113 votes
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Matthew 12:36112 votes
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
James 3:10111 votes
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
Matthew 15:18107 votes
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
What does the Bible say about tame your tongue?
Readers most often cite James 1:26 on the subject of tame your tongue. Across 9,038 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 15:4, Proverbs 12:18, Psalms 141:3. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.