A Healthy Tongue
A word fitly spoken is like
apples of gold in pictures of silver (Prov. 25:11).
The tongue of the wise is
health (Prov. 12:18).
Pleasant words are as an
honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones (Prov. 16:24).
A wholesome tongue is a
tree of life (Prov. 15:4).
A Wise Tongue
The tongue of the wise uses
knowledge aright (Prov. 15:2).
The lips of the wise
disperse knowledge (Prov. 15:7).
A word spoken in due
season, how good is it! (Prov. 15:23).
A soft answer turns away
wrath; but grievous words stir up anger (Prov. 15:1).
If any man offend not in
word, the same is a perfect man (Jas. 3:2).
A Tongue of Few Words
Let every man be swift to
hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath (Jas. 1:19).
Whoso keeps his mouth and
his tongue keeps his soul from troubles (Prov. 21:23).
He who keeps his mouth
keeps his life (Prov. 13:3).
He who has knowledge spares
his words…. Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise; and he who
shuts his lips is esteemed a man of understanding (Prov. 17:27,28).
If you have thought evil,
lay your hand upon your mouth (Prov. 30;32).
God is in heaven, and you
upon earth; therefore let your words be few (Eccl. 5:2).
A Tongue of Many Words
In the multitude of words
there wants not sin (Prov. 10:19).
A fool also is full of
words (Eccl. 10:14).
When you pray, use not vain
repetitions, as the heathen do; for they think that they shall be heard for
their much speaking (Matt. 6:7).
A Flattering Tongue
Understanding shall keep
you … to deliver you from the … stranger who flatters with her words (Prov.
2:11,16).
A flattering mouth works
ruin (Prov. 26:28).
Meddle not with him who
flatters with his lips (Prov. 20:19).
A man who flatters his
neighbor spreads a net for his feet (Prov. 29:5).
The words of his mouth were
smoother than butter, but war was in his heart (Psa. 55:21).
This people draws nigh unto
Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips; but their heart is far from
Me (Matt. 15:8).
My little children, let us
not love in word … but in deed and in truth (1 John 3:18).
A Foolish Tongue
A fool’s lips enter into
contention … his lips are the snare of his soul (Prov. 18:6,7).
The lips of a fool will
swallow up himself (Eccl. 10:12).
A fool utters all his mind;
but a wise man keeps it in till afterwards (Prov. 29:11).
A Lying Tongue
The LORD hates … a lying
tongue,… a false witness that speaks lies (Prov. 6:16-19).
The lip of truth shall be
established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment (Prov. 12:19).
A false witness shall not
be unpunished, and he who speaks lies shall perish (Prov. 19:9).
A Tongue of False Doctrine
For there are many unruly
and vain talkers and deceivers (Tit. 1:10).
By good works and fair
speeches [they] deceive he hearts of the simple (Rom. 16:18).
Through covetousness shall
they with feigned words make merchandise of you (2 Pet. 2:3).
A Dangerous Tongue
Death and life are in the
power of the tongue (Prov. 18:21).
An ungodly man digs up
evil; and in his lips there is as a burning fire (Prov. 16:27).
The tongue is a little
member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire
kindles! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity:so is the tongue among
our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of
nature; and it is set on fire of hell…. The tongue can no man tame; it is an
unruly evil, full of deadly poison (Jas. 3:5-8).
Warnings and Exhortations
Every idle word that men
shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment (Matt.
12:36).
If you bite and devour one
another, take heed that you be not consumed (Gal. 5:15).
Let all bitterness, and
wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you (Eph.
4:31).
Let your speech be alway
with grace, seasoned with salt (Col. 4:6).
Put off all these:anger,
wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth (Col. 3:8).
Speak not evil one of
another, brethren (Jas. 4:11).
Speaking the truth in love,
[we] may grow up into Him in all things, which is the Head, even Christ (Eph.
4:15).
Proper Uses of the Tongue
My mouth shall praise Thee
with joyful lips (Psa. 63:5).
It is a good thing to give
thanks unto the LORD (Psa. 92:1).
With my mouth will I make
known Thy faithfulness to all generations (Psa. 89;1).
I have not spoken of Myself
(John 12:49).
If you shall confess with
your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God hats raised
Him from the dead, you shall be saved. For with the heart man believes unto
righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation (Rom. 10:9,10).
Be ready always to give an
answer to every man who asks you a reason of the hope that is in your with
meekness and fear (1 Pet. 3:15).