The King James Version Bible

Bible Verses About Taming Your Tongue

  • Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
  • 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.
  • A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
  • There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
  • 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. Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. Behold also the ...
  • Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
  • 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.
  • Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
  • Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
  • 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:
  • Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
  • A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
  • 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. O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the ...
  • Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
  • Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
  • In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
  • Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.