Quotes About Tongue

Then my tongue will proclaim Your righteousness and Your praises all day long.

Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.

My tongue sings of Your word, for all Your commandments are righteous.

May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!

The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked has little worth.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.

He who guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from distress.

Whom are you mocking? At whom do you snarl and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit,

For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.

Therefore, the one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.

If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.

In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.

The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

With the tongue we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in Godís likeness.