Proverbs 2:16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue; (BBE)
Proverbs 4:24 Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you. (BBE)
Proverbs 6:17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood; (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 6:24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me. (BBE)
Proverbs 10:19 Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely. (See NIV)
Proverbs 10:20 The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 10:31 The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 11:12 He who has a poor opinion of his neighbour has no sense, but a wise man keeps quiet. (See NIV)
Proverbs 12:18 There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 12:19 Truth's lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 15:4 A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 16:1 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 17:4 An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 17:20 One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Proverbs 17:28 Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense. (See NIV)
Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 21:6 Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 21:23 Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 25:15 By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 25:23 The north wind brings forth rain: so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 26:28 A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 28:23 One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 29:20 Have you seen a man who is quick with his tongue? There is more hope for a foolish man than for him. (BBE)
Proverbs 31:26 She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 10:11 If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer's tongue. (WEB YLT)
Song of Songs 4:11 Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 3:8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh, to provoke the eyes of his glory. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Isaiah 11:15 Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Isaiah 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. (KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 30:27 Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 32:4 The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 33:19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand. (KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 35:6 Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 41:17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 45:23 By myself have I sworn, the word has gone forth from my mouth in righteousness, and will not return, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 50:4 The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me," says Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 57:4 Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out your tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 5:15 Lo, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah, A nation -- strong it 'is', a nation -- from of old it 'is', A nation -- thou knowest not its tongue, Nor understandest what it speaketh. (YLT)
Jeremiah 9:3 They bend their tongue, as it were their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 9:5 They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 9:8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 18:18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 23:31 Behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who use their tongues, and say, He says. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Lamentations 4:4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 3:5 For thou art not sent to a people of an unintelligible speech and of a slow tongue, but to the house of Israel; (JPS YLT)
Ezekiel 3:6 not to many peoples of an unintelligible speech and of a slow tongue, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, if I sent thee to them, they would hearken unto thee. (JPS YLT)
Ezekiel 3:26 and I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 36:3 therefore, prophesy, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because, even because, of desolating, And of swallowing you up from round about, For your being a possession to the remnant of the nations, And ye are taken up on the tip of the tongue, And 'are' an evil report of the people. (YLT)
Daniel 1:4 Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans. (KJV JPS ASV)
Daniel 3:29 Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver after this sort. (See NAS)
Hosea 7:16 They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Amos 6:10 And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD. (KJV WBS)
Micah 6:12 Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Zephaniah 3:13 The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Zechariah 8:23 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying,'We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'" (See RSV)
Zechariah 14:12 This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)