215 verses contain “Tongue” (in the KJV: 207, in the BSB: 139) — showing 201–215
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The stroke of the
whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the
tongue breaketh the bones.
Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.
Let thy speech be short,
comprehending much in few words; be as one that knoweth and yet holdeth his
tongue.
If there be kindness,
meekness, and comfort, in her
tongue, then is not her husband like other men.
Four manner of things appear: good and evil, life and death: but the tongue ruleth over them continually.
The pipe and the
psaltery make sweet
melody: but a pleasant
tongue is above them both.
For thou art my defender and helper, and has preserved my body from destruction, and from the
snare of the
slanderous tongue, and from the lips that
forge lies, and has been mine helper against mine
adversaries:
From the depth of the
belly of
hell, from an unclean
tongue, and from lying words.
By an
accusation to the king from an unrighteous
tongue my soul drew near even unto death, my life was near to the
hell beneath.
The Lord hath given me a
tongue for my reward, and I will praise him
therewith.
As for their
tongue, it is polished by the
workman, and they themselves are
gilded and laid over with silver; yet are they but false, and cannot speak.
Which
forthwith being heated, he commanded to cut out the
tongue of him that spake first, and to cut off the utmost parts of his body, the rest of his brethren and his mother looking on.
After him was the third made a
mocking stock: and when he was required, he put out his
tongue, and that right soon, holding forth his hands
manfully.
And when he had cut out the
tongue of that ungodly Nicanor, he commanded that they should give it by pieces unto the fowls, and
hang up the reward of his madness before the temple.
And they ordained all with a common decree in no case to let that day pass without
solemnity, but to
celebrate the
thirtieth day of the
twelfth month, which in the
Syrian tongue is called
Adar, the day before Mardocheus’ day.