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Want to know what the Bible says about Tongue? Here are 275 Bible verses about Tongue from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Matthew 12:34 NIV
You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
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Proverbs 25:23 NIV
Like a north wind that brings unexpected rain
    is a sly tongue—which provokes a horrified look.
168
Revelation 21:8 NIV
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars —they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”
168
James 1:19-20 NIV
19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
164
1 Corinthians 14:39 NIV
Therefore, my brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.
162
1 Corinthians 14:2 NIV
For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit.
161
Psalm 15:3 NIV
whose tongue utters no slander,
    who does no wrong to a neighbor,
    and casts no slur on others;
159
Proverbs 25:15 NIV
Through patience a ruler can be persuaded,
    and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
156
Proverbs 17:28 NIV
Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent,
    and discerning if they hold their tongues.
155
Psalm 52:2 NIV
You who practice deceit,
    your tongue plots destruction;
    it is like a sharpened razor.
153
Ecclesiastes 3:7 NIV
    a time to tear and a time to mend,
    a time to be silent and a time to speak,
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Psalm 71:24 NIV
My tongue will tell of your righteous acts
    all day long,
for those who wanted to harm me
    have been put to shame and confusion.
143
Matthew 12:37 NIV
For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
141
Acts 2:4 NIV
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
140
Psalm 12:4 NIV
those who say,
    “By our tongues we will prevail;
    our own lips will defend us—who is lord over us?”
139
Leviticus 19:16 NIV
“‘Do not go about spreading slander among your people.
“‘Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor’s life. I am the Lord.
138
Judges 7:5 NIV
So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the Lord told him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues as a dog laps from those who kneel down to drink.”
135
Psalm 139:4 NIV
Before a word is on my tongue
    you, Lord, know it completely.
134
Isaiah 28:11 NIV
Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues
    God will speak to this people,
131
Psalm 22:15 NIV
My mouth is dried up like a potsherd,
    and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;
    you lay me in the dust of death.
127

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