What does the Bible say about tame your tongue?

16 verses about tame your tongue, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

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Bible verses about tame your tongue

1. Proverbs 15:4 — A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit. 3 votes
2. James 1:26 — 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. 3 votes
3. Psalms 34:13 — Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. 2 votes
4. Psalms 141:3 — Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. 2 votes
5. Proverbs 10:19 — In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise. 2 votes
6. Proverbs 12:18 — There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. 2 votes
7. Proverbs 15:1 — A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. 2 votes
8. Proverbs 18:21 — Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. 2 votes
9. Proverbs 21:23 — Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles. 2 votes
10. Matthew 12:34 — O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 2 votes
11. Matthew 15:11 — Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. 2 votes
12. Ephesians 4:29 — 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. 2 votes
13. James 3:1 — My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. 2 votes
14. James 3:5 — Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! 2 votes
15. James 3:8 — But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 2 votes
16. 1 Peter 3:10 — 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: 2 votes

Where these verses are

Proverbs (6), James (4), Psalms (2), Matthew (2), Ephesians (1), 1 Peter (1)

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