tame your tongue

Psalm Chapter 34:13

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

Psalm Chapter 141:3

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

Proverbs Chapter 10:19

In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

Proverbs Chapter 12:18

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Proverbs Chapter 15:1

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

Proverbs Chapter 15:4

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

Proverbs Chapter 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Proverbs Chapter 21:23

Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

Matthew Chapter 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.

Matthew Chapter 15:11

Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

Ephesians Chapter 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.

James Chapter 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.

James Chapter 3:1

My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

James Chapter 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.

James Chapter 3:3

Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

James Chapter 3:4

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.

James Chapter 3:5

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

James Chapter 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.

James Chapter 3:7

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

James Chapter 3:8

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

James Chapter 3:9

Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

James Chapter 3:10

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

James Chapter 3:11

Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

James Chapter 3:12

Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

1 Peter Chapter 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: