But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.


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James 3 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Psalms 52 2 The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Proverbs 15 4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Psalms 5 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Proverbs 26 28 A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Psalms 34 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Psalms 58 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
Job 15 5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Romans 3 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
James 3 5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
Job 6 30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
Proverbs 4 24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
Romans 3 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Proverbs 18 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Psalms 64 3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
Psalms 64 8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
Psalms 10 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Psalms 50 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Proverbs 12 18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Matthew 15 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
Psalms 38 7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
Job 5 21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
Jeremiah 9 8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
Job 27 4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
Proverbs 17 4 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
Proverbs 23 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
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.
Proverbs 13 3 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Psalms 140 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Proverbs 17 20 He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
Proverbs 16 27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
Proverbs 10 31 The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
Proverbs 18 7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Job 20 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
Psalms 52 4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
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.
Isaiah 32 6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Psalms 41 8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
Proverbs 10 20 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
Revelation 9 19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
Proverbs 24 2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Proverbs 8 7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Job 7 11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Proverbs 6 12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
Proverbs 23 8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
Isaiah 59 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
Psalms 39 1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Psalms 71 24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.
Proverbs 14 3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Job 33 2 Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.