-
But Moses said to the Lord, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.”
-
then all the people returned safe to Joshua in the camp at Makkedah. Not a man moved his tongue against any of the people of Israel.
-
So he brought the people down to the water. And the Lord said to Gideon, “Every one who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself. Likewise, every one who kneels down to drink.”
-
“The Spirit of the Lord speaks by me; his word is on my tongue.
-
You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
-
Is there any injustice on my tongue? Cannot my palate discern the cause of calamity?
-
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
-
“Though evil is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,
-
He will suck the poison of cobras; the tongue of a viper will kill him.
-
my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
-
the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
-
Behold, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks.
-
“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord?
-
For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.
-
His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
-
May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,
-
those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is master over us?”
-
who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend;
-
my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.
-
In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men; you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.
-
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.
-
Then my tongue shall tell of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.
-
The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
-
What Is the Measure of My Days?
To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence.”
-
My heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:
-
Your Throne, O God, Is Forever
To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah; a love song.
My heart overflows with a pleasing theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.
-
“You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
-
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
-
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
-
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
-
Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.
-
My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts— the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
-
who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,
-
They are brought to ruin, with their own tongues turned against them; all who see them will wag their heads.
-
I cried to him with my mouth, and high praise was on my tongue.
-
that you may strike your feet in their blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe.”
-
And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disappointed who sought to do me hurt.
-
They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.
-
But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.
-
For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.
-
My tongue will sing of your word, for all your commandments are right.
-
Deliver me, O Lord, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
-
What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done to you, you deceitful tongue?
-
Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”
-
Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!
-
Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
-
They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah
-
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
-
to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
-
The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; the heart of the wicked is of little worth.
-
The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
-
There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
-
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
-
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
-
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
-
The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
-
An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
-
A man of crooked heart does not discover good, and one with a dishonest tongue falls into calamity.
-
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
-
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.
-
Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.
-
With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.
-
The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.
-
A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
-
Whoever rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue.
-
She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.
-
Your lips drip nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your tongue; the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
-
Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
-
And the Lord will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt, and will wave his hand over the River with his scorching breath, and strike it into seven channels, and he will lead people across in sandals.
-
For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the Lord will speak to this people,
-
Behold, the name of the Lord comes from afar, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke; his lips are full of fury, and his tongue is like a devouring fire;
-
The heart of the hasty will understand and know, and the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak distinctly.
-
You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue that you cannot understand.
-
then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing for joy. For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert;
-
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
-
By myself I have sworn; from my mouth has gone out in righteousness a word that shall not return: ‘To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear allegiance.’
-
The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
-
no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.”
-
Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of deceit,
-
For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness.
-
“For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,
-
They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
-
Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity.
-
Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.
-
Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”
-
Behold, I am against the prophets, declares the Lord, who use their tongues and declare, ‘declares the Lord.’
-
The tongue of the nursing infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them.
-
And I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be mute and unable to reprove them, for they are a rebellious house.
-
They return, but not upward; they are like a treacherous bow; their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
-
Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
-
those who are left in Israel; they shall do no injustice and speak no lies, nor shall there be found in their mouth a deceitful tongue. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.”
-
Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
-
And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
-
And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue.
-
And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.
-
And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
-
And immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, blessing God.
-
And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’
-
And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them.
-
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
-
both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.”
-
therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; my flesh also will dwell in hope.
-
For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared,
-
And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying.
-
“Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.”
-
for it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”
-
to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
-
And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
-
Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
-
The Way of Love
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
-
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
-
Prophecy and Tongues
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
-
For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit.
-
The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.
-
Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up.
-
Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?
-
So with yourselves, if with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is said? For you will be speaking into the air.
-
Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.
-
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.
-
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.
-
Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
-
In the Law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.”
-
Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.
-
If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds?
-
Orderly Worship
What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
-
If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret.
-
So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.
-
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
-
Qualifications for Deacons
Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain.
-
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.
-
Taming the Tongue
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
-
So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!
-
And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.
-
but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
-
For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;
-
The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in anguish
