Bible Verses About Words and the Tongue
Scripture on the power of the tongue — life, death, and the words that heal.
The Bible says the tongue carries life and death — no other small thing does so much good or damage. These verses are Scripture's user manual for the most powerful muscle you own.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue.
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
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.
No corrupt communication — only what edifies and ministers grace.
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth — the prayer to pray daily.
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb — sweet, and health.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Swift to hear, slow to speak.
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Speech alway with grace, seasoned with salt.
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Every idle word shall be accounted for — words are weighty.
You will speak thousands of words today; Scripture asks that they carry life. Watch the mouth's door, sweeten what passes it, and let grace do the seasoning.
