Bible Verses About Taming Your Tongue
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for taming your tongue, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 37,602 votes, led by Proverbs 21:23. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Taming Your Tongue
Proverbs 21:232,368 votes
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Ephesians 4:292,144 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 15:11,570 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
James 1:261,449 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.
Psalms 141:31,437 votes
Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
James 3:2-101,330 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.
Proverbs 12:181,307 votes
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Psalms 34:131,203 votes
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Proverbs 18:211,050 votes
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
1 Peter 3:10986 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:
Proverbs 17:28973 votes
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Proverbs 15:4929 votes
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Matthew 15:11727 votes
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
James 3:10679 votes
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
Matthew 12:33-37660 votes
Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
Proverbs 10:19657 votes
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Titus 3:2601 votes
To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
James 3:1-18598 votes
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Psalms 52:2507 votes
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Proverbs 17:9457 votes
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Exodus 14:14418 votes
The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Psalms 37:30398 votes
The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
James 1:19-20391 votes
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Proverbs 26:20388 votes
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
James 3:2384 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.
What does the Bible say about taming your tongue?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 21:23 on the subject of taming your tongue. Across 37,602 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 4:29, Proverbs 15:1, James 1:26. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.