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Bible Verses About tame your tongue

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Discover 16 powerful Bible verses about tame your tongue. Study what Scripture teaches about this essential character & virtues topic.

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TranslationKey Verse: James 1:26
King James (KJV)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.

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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.
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit. A wholesome: Heb. The healing of the tongue
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
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. to: or, to edify profitably
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
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:
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. condemnation: or, judgment
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! a matter: or, wood
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

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