Bible Verses About Tongue
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for tongue, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 66,244 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 Tongue
James 1:261,597 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 18:211,489 votes
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
1 Peter 3:101,336 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 21:231,327 votes
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Proverbs 12:181,276 votes
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 15:41,221 votes
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Proverbs 10:191,169 votes
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Ephesians 4:291,164 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.
James 3:81,096 votes
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Psalms 34:13943 votes
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Proverbs 15:1930 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
James 3:6923 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.
James 3:1-18915 votes
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
James 3:5884 votes
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
Proverbs 13:3782 votes
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Psalms 141:3762 votes
Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Matthew 12:36733 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 3:2682 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.
1 Corinthians 14:1-40629 votes
Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
Proverbs 6:16-19619 votes
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Matthew 12:36-37616 votes
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Psalms 39:1615 votes
I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Proverbs 26:20604 votes
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
James 3:1604 votes
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Matthew 15:11601 votes
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
What does the Bible say about tongue?
Readers most often cite James 1:26 on the subject of tongue. Across 66,244 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 18:21, 1 Peter 3:10, Proverbs 21:23. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.