VERSES ABOUT TONGUE,
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1 Peter 3:10
For, "He who would love life, And see good days, Let him keep his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking deceit.
Proverbs 21:6
Getting treasures by a lying tongue Is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, But the tongue of the wise heals.
Proverbs 12:19
Truth's lips will be established forever, But a lying tongue is only momentary.
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James 3:5
So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
→ [3:4] Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.
→ [3:5] So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
→ [3:6] And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
→ [3:7] For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.
→ [3:8] But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
→ [3:9] With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.
→ [3:10] Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
→ [3:11] Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
→ [3:12] Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
Psalms 31:20
In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.