Original collection
Tongue Matt 5:33-37; Matt 12:34-37; Jas 3:1-12; 1 Pet 3:8-12
Key KJV Scriptures:
Proverbs 18:21; Matthew 12:34-37; Ephesians 4:29; James 1:26; 3:1-12
Key KJV Scriptures: Full Text
102 indexed verses · Showing 81–102. Read each passage in its chapter context.
1 Corinthians 14:34 (KJV)
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
1 Corinthians 14:35 (KJV)
And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
1 Corinthians 14:36 (KJV)
What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?
1 Corinthians 14:37 (KJV)
If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 14:38 (KJV)
But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
1 Corinthians 14:39 (KJV)
Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
1 Corinthians 14:40 (KJV)
Let all things be done decently and in order.
Ephesians 4:29 (KJV)
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 1:26 (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.
James 3:1 (KJV)
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
James 3:2 (KJV)
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 3:3 (KJV)
Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
James 3:4 (KJV)
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 3:5 (KJV)
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
James 3:6 (KJV)
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 3:7 (KJV)
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 3:8 (KJV)
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
James 3:9 (KJV)
Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
James 3:10 (KJV)
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
James 3:11 (KJV)
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
James 3:12 (KJV)
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
Revelation 7:9 (KJV)
After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
Reference selections include Orville J. Nave’s public-domain topical index, via Brady Stephenson’s bible-data (CC BY 4.0). Titles and references have been normalized, duplicates merged, and references checked against the site’s KJV. This is a passage-finding aid; its classifications do not establish doctrine.