Bible Verses About Tongues
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for tongues, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,174 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 14:1-40. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Tongues
1 Corinthians 14:1-40100 votes
Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 14:3981 votes
Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
1 Corinthians 14:278 votes
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.
Acts 2:1-4770 votes
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Mark 16:1760 votes
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
1 Corinthians 13:859 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 14:2757 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 12:1053 votes
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:
Acts 10:4650 votes
For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,
James 1:2650 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.
1 Corinthians 12:2847 votes
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
1 Corinthians 14:2247 votes
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.
1 Peter 3:1046 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:
Acts 2:445 votes
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Acts 19:644 votes
And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
Proverbs 15:443 votes
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Proverbs 21:2341 votes
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Ephesians 4:2941 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 12:1840 votes
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
1 Corinthians 12:3040 votes
Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
Proverbs 18:2139 votes
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
1 Corinthians 13:139 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 14:439 votes
He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
1 Corinthians 14:1339 votes
Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.
1 Corinthians 14:2339 votes
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?
What does the Bible say about tongues?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 14:1-40 on the subject of tongues. Across 3,174 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 14:39, 1 Corinthians 14:2, Acts 2:1-47. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.