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What does the Bible say about taming your tongue?

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

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Bible verses about taming your tongue

Proverbs 21:23 — Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles. 6 votes
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. 6 votes
Psalms 141:3 — Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. 4 votes
Proverbs 15:1 — A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. 4 votes
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. 4 votes
Psalms 34:13 — Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. 3 votes
Proverbs 12:18 — There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. 3 votes
Proverbs 17:28 — Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. 3 votes
Proverbs 18:21 — Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. 3 votes
James 3:2 — 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. 3 votes
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: 3 votes
Proverbs 10:19 — In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise. 2 votes
Proverbs 15:4 — A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit. 2 votes
Matthew 12:33 — 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. 2 votes
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
Titus 3:2 — To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. 2 votes
James 3:1 — My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. 2 votes
James 3:10 — Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. 2 votes

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Proverbs (7), James (4), Psalms (2), Matthew (2), Ephesians (1), Titus (1), 1 Peter (1)

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