24 Bible Verses About Controlling Your Tongue

The Bible says the tongue is small but can do great harm or great good, and that speech shows what is in the heart. Proverbs 18:21 gives it “the power of life and death,” and Jesus says “the mouth speaks what the heart is full of” (Luke 6:45). James 3:1-12 compares the tongue to a horse’s bit, a ship’s rudder and a spark, and says no human being can tame it. Proverbs praises restraint (Proverbs 10:19; 17:27-28; 18:13), the Psalms…