Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Tongue’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.
The term ‘Tongue’ occurs 99 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.
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Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book Genesis
Genesis 10:5 The islands of the Gentiles were divided by these into their regions, each one according to his tongue, and their families in their nations.Genesis 10:5
Genesis 11:6 And he said: “Behold, the people are united, and all have one tongue. And since they have begun to do this, they will not desist from their plans, until they have completed their work.Genesis 11:6
Genesis 11:7 Therefore, come, let us descend, and in that place confound their tongue, so that they may not listen, each one to the voice of his neighbor.”Genesis 11:7
Genesis 41:45 And he changed his name and called him, in the Egyptian tongue: ‘Savior of the world.’ And he gave him as a wife, Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis. And so Joseph went out into the land of Egypt.Genesis 41:45
Number of the word / term Tongue in Genesis: 4
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book Exodus
Exodus 4:10 Moses said: “I beg you, O Lord, I was not eloquent yesterday or the day before. And from the time that you have spoken to your servant, I have a greater impediment and slowness of tongue.”Exodus 4:10
Number of the word / term Tongue in Exodus: 1
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book Joshua
Joshua 10:21 And the entire army returned to Joshua at Makkedah, where they were then encamped, in good health and in their full numbers. And no one dared to move his tongue against the sons of Israel.Joshua 10:21
Number of the word / term Tongue in Joshua: 1
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book Judges
Judges 7:5 And when the people had descended to the waters, the Lord said to Gideon: “Whoever will lap the water with the tongue, as dogs usually lap, you shall separate them by themselves. Then those who will drink by bending their knees shall be on the other side.”Judges 7:5
Number of the word / term Tongue in Judges: 1
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book 2 Samuel
2 Samuel 23:2 “The Spirit of the Lord has spoken through me, and his word was spoken through my tongue.2 Samuel 23:2
Number of the word / term Tongue in 2 Samuel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book Job
Job 5:21 You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and you will not fear calamity when it arrives.Job 5:21
Job 6:30 And you will not find iniquity on my tongue, nor will foolishness resound in my throat.Job 6:30
Job 15:5 For your iniquity has mislead your mouth, and you imitate the tongue of blasphemers.Job 15:5
Job 20:12 For, when evil will be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.Job 20:12
Job 20:16 He will suck the head of snakes, and the tongue of the viper will kill him.Job 20:16
Job 27:4 my lips will not speak iniquity, nor will my tongue devise lies.Job 27:4
Job 29:10 The commanders subdued their voice, and their tongue adhered to their throat.Job 29:10
Job 33:2 Behold, I have opened my mouth; let my tongue speak along with my throat.Job 33:2
Job 41:1 Can you draw out the leviathan with a hook, and can you bind his tongue with a cord?Job 41:1
Number of the word / term Tongue in Job: 9
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book Psalm
Psalm 10:7 His mouth is full of curses, and bitterness, and deceit. Under his tongue are hardship and sorrow.Psalm 10:7
Psalm 12:3 May the Lord scatter all deceitful lips, along with the tongue that speaks malice.Psalm 12:3
Psalm 12:4 They have said: “We will magnify our tongue; our lips belong to us. What is Lord to us?”Psalm 12:4
Psalm 15:3 He who speaks the truth in his heart, who has not acted deceitfully with his tongue, and has not done evil to his neighbor, and has not taken up a reproach against his neighbors.Psalm 15:3
Psalm 16:9 Because of this, my heart has been joyful, and my tongue has exulted. Moreover, even my body will rest in hope.Psalm 16:9
Psalm 22:15 My strength has dried up like clay, and my tongue has adhered to my jaws. And you have pulled me down, into the dust of death.Psalm 22:15
Psalm 34:13 Prohibit your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.Psalm 34:13
Psalm 35:28 And so my tongue will express your justice: your praise all day long.Psalm 35:28
Psalm 37:30 The mouth of the just one will express wisdom, and his tongue will speak judgment.Psalm 37:30
Psalm 39:1 Unto the end. For Jeduthun himself. A Canticle of David. I said, “I will keep to my ways, so that I will not offend with my tongue.” I posted a guard at my mouth, when a sinner took up a position against me.Psalm 39:1
Psalm 39:4 I spoke with my tongue, “O Lord, make me know my end, and what the number of my days will be, so that I may know what is lacking to me.”Psalm 39:4
Psalm 45:1 Unto the end. For those who will be changed. To the sons of Korah, toward understanding. A Canticle for the Beloved. My heart has uttered a good word. I speak of my works to the king. My tongue is like the pen of a scribe who writes quickly.Psalm 45:1
Psalm 50:19 Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits.Psalm 50:19
Psalm 51:14 Free me from blood, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will extol your justice.Psalm 51:14
Psalm 52:2 All day long your tongue thinks up injustice. Like a sharp razor, you have wrought deceit.Psalm 52:2
Psalm 52:4 You have loved all precipitous words, you deceitful tongue.Psalm 52:4
Psalm 57:4 And he has rescued my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men: their teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue is a sharp sword.Psalm 57:4
Psalm 68:23 so that your feet may be soaked in the blood of your enemies, so that the tongue of your dogs may be soaked with the same.Psalm 68:23
Psalm 71:24 And even my tongue will meditate on your justice all day long, when those who seek evils for me have been confounded and set in awe.Psalm 71:24
Psalm 73:9 They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has traversed the earth.Psalm 73:9
Psalm 78:36 And they chose him with their mouth, and then they lied to him with their tongue.Psalm 78:36
Psalm 81:5 He set it as a testimony with Joseph, when he went out of the land of Egypt. He heard a tongue that he did not know.Psalm 81:5
Psalm 119:172 My tongue will pronounce your eloquence. For all your commandments are fairness.Psalm 119:172
Psalm 120:2 O Lord, free my soul from lips of iniquity and from the deceitful tongue.Psalm 120:2
Psalm 126:2 Then our mouth was filled with gladness and our tongue with exultation. Then they will say among the nations: “The Lord has done great things for them.”Psalm 126:2
Psalm 137:6 May my tongue adhere to my jaws, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem first, as the beginning of my joy.Psalm 137:6
Psalm 139:4 And you have foreseen all my ways. For there is no word in my tongue.Psalm 139:4
Number of the word / term Tongue in Psalm: 27
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book Proverbs
Proverbs 6:17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,Proverbs 6:17
Proverbs 6:24 So may they guard you from an evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the outsider.Proverbs 6:24
Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the Lord hates evil. I detest arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue.Proverbs 8:13
Proverbs 10:20 The tongue of the just is choice silver. But the heart of the impious is exchanged for nothing.Proverbs 10:20
Proverbs 10:31 The mouth of the just shall bring forth wisdom. The tongue of the depraved will perish.Proverbs 10:31
Proverbs 12:18 He who makes promises is also jabbed, as if with a sword, in conscience. But the tongue of the wise is reasonable.Proverbs 12:18
Proverbs 12:19 The lips of truth shall be steadfast forever. But a hasty witness readies a lying tongue.Proverbs 12:19
Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge. But the mouth of the senseless gushes with foolishness.Proverbs 15:2
Proverbs 15:4 A peaceful tongue is a tree of life. But that which is immoderate will crush the spirit.Proverbs 15:4
Proverbs 16:1 It is for man to prepare the soul, and for the Lord to govern the tongue.Proverbs 16:1
Proverbs 17:4 The evil obey an unjust tongue. And the false are submissive to lying lips.Proverbs 17:4
Proverbs 17:20 Whoever is of a perverse heart shall not find good. And whoever turns his tongue shall fall into evil.Proverbs 17:20
Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Whoever values it shall eat from its fruits.Proverbs 18:21
Proverbs 21:6 Whoever gathers treasures by a lying tongue is vain and heartless. And he will stumble into the snares of death.Proverbs 21:6
Proverbs 21:23 Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue guards his soul from anguish.Proverbs 21:23
Proverbs 25:15 By patience, a leader shall be appeased, and a soft tongue shall break hardness.Proverbs 25:15
Proverbs 25:23 The north wind brings forth the rain, and a sorrowful face brings forth a detracting tongue.Proverbs 25:23
Proverbs 26:28 A false tongue does not love truth. And a slippery mouth works ruin.Proverbs 26:28
Proverbs 28:23 Whoever corrects a man, afterward he shall find favor with him, more so than he who deceives him with a flattering tongue.Proverbs 28:23
Proverbs 31:26 She has opened her mouth to wisdom, and the law of clemency is on her tongue.Proverbs 31:26
Number of the word / term Tongue in Proverbs: 20
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book Song
Song of Solomon 4:11 Your lips, my spouse, are a dripping honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue. And the fragrance of your garments is like the odor of frankincense.Song of Solomon 4:11
Number of the word / term Tongue in Song: 1
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book Isaiah
Isaiah 5:24 Because of this, as the tongue of fire devours stubble, and as the heat of a flame burns it completely, so will their root become like glowing embers, and so will their offshoot ascend like dust. For they have cast aside the law of the Lord of hosts, and they have blasphemed the eloquence of the Holy One of Israel.Isaiah 5:24
Isaiah 11:15 And the Lord will desolate the tongue of the sea of Egypt. And he will lift up his hand over the river, with the strength of his Spirit; and he will strike it, in its seven streams, so that they may cross through it in their shoes.Isaiah 11:15
Isaiah 30:27 Behold, the name of the Lord arrives from far away. His fury is burning and heavy to bear. His lips have been filled with indignation, and his tongue is like a devouring fire.Isaiah 30:27
Isaiah 32:4 And the heart of the foolish will understand knowledge, and the tongue of those with impaired speech will speak quickly and plainly.Isaiah 32:4
Isaiah 33:19 You will not look upon a shameless people, a people of exalted words. For you are not able to understand the dissertation of a tongue in which there is no wisdom.Isaiah 33:19
Isaiah 35:6 Then the disabled will leap like a buck, and the tongue of the mute will be untied. For the waters have burst forth in the desert, and torrents in solitary places.Isaiah 35:6
Isaiah 41:17 The indigent and the poor are seeking water, but there is none. Their tongue has been dried up by thirst. I, the Lord, will heed them. I, the God of Israel, will not abandon them.Isaiah 41:17
Isaiah 45:23 I have sworn by myself. The Word of justice will proceed from my mouth, and it will not turn back. For every knee shall bend to me, and every tongue shall swear it.Isaiah 45:23
Isaiah 50:4 The Lord has given me a learned tongue, so that I would know how to uphold with a word, one who has weakened. He rises in the morning, he rises to my ear in the morning, so that I may heed him like a teacher.Isaiah 50:4
Isaiah 54:17 No object which has been formed to use against you will succeed. And every tongue that resists you in judgment, you shall judge. This is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and this is their justice with me, says the Lord.Isaiah 54:17
Isaiah 59:3 For your hands have been polluted by blood, and your fingers by iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue utters iniquity.Isaiah 59:3
Number of the word / term Tongue in Isaiah: 11
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book Jeremiah
Jeremiah 9:3 And they have bent their tongue, like a bow, to send forth lies and not the truth. They have been strengthened upon the earth. And they have gone from one evil to another. But they have not known me, says the Lord.Jeremiah 9:3
Jeremiah 9:5 And a man will deride his brother, and they will not speak the truth. For they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they have labored to commit iniquity.Jeremiah 9:5
Jeremiah 9:8 Their tongue is a wounding arrow; it has spoken deceit. With his mouth, he speaks peace with his friend, and then he secretly lies in ambush for him.Jeremiah 9:8
Jeremiah 18:18 And they said: “Come, and let us devise a plan against Jeremiah. For the law will not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor a sermon from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us pay no attention to any of his words.”Jeremiah 18:18
Number of the word / term Tongue in Jeremiah: 4
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book Lamentations
Lamentations 4:4 DALETH. The tongue of the infant adheres to his palate out of thirst. The little ones have asked for bread, and there was no one to break it for them.Lamentations 4:4
Number of the word / term Tongue in Lamentations: 1
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book Ezekiel
Ezekiel 3:26 And I will cause your tongue to adhere to the roof of your mouth. And you will be mute, not like a man who reproaches. For they are a provoking house.Ezekiel 3:26
Ezekiel 36:3 because of this, prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God: Because you have been made desolate, and you have been trampled on every side, and you have been made into an inheritance for the remainder of the nations, and because you rose up, over the tip of the tongue and over the shame of the people,Ezekiel 36:3
Number of the word / term Tongue in Ezekiel: 2
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book Micah
Micah 6:12 By this, her wealthy have been filled with iniquity, and her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth.Micah 6:12
Number of the word / term Tongue in Micah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book Zephaniah
Zephaniah 3:13 The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, and a deceitful tongue will not be found in their mouth. For they will pasture and will recline, and there will be no one to strike them with terror.Zephaniah 3:13
Number of the word / term Tongue in Zephaniah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book Zechariah
Zechariah 14:12 And this will be the plague by which the Lord will strike all the Gentiles that have fought against Jerusalem. The flesh of each one will waste away while they are standing on their feet, and their eyes will be consumed in their sockets, and their tongue will be consumed in their mouth.Zechariah 14:12
Number of the word / term Tongue in Zechariah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book Mark
Mark 7:33 And taking him away from the crowd, he put his fingers into his ears; and spitting, he touched his tongue.Mark 7:33
Mark 7:35 And immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke correctly.Mark 7:35
Number of the word / term Tongue in Mark: 2
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book Luke
Luke 1:64 Then, at once, his mouth was opened, and his tongue loosened, and he spoke, blessing God.Luke 1:64
Luke 16:24 And crying out, he said: ‘Father Abraham, take pity on me and send Lazarus, so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water to refresh my tongue. For I am tortured in this fire.’Luke 16:24
Number of the word / term Tongue in Luke: 2
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book Acts
Acts 2:26 Because of this, my heart has rejoiced, and my tongue has exulted. Moreover, my flesh shall also rest in hope.Acts 2:26
Number of the word / term Tongue in Acts: 1
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book Romans
Romans 14:11 For it is written: “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bend to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”Romans 14:11
Number of the word / term Tongue in Romans: 1
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 14:9 So it is with you also, for unless you utter with the tongue in plain speech, how will it be known what is said? For then you would be speaking into the air.1 Corinthians 14:9
Number of the word / term Tongue in 1 Corinthians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book Philippians
Philippians 2:11 and so that every tongue would confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.Philippians 2:11
Number of the word / term Tongue in Philippians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book James
James 1:26 But if anyone considers himself to be religious, but he does not restrain his tongue, but instead seduces his own heart: such a one’s religion is vanity.James 1:26
James 3:5 So also the tongue certainly is a small part, but it moves great things. Consider that a small fire can set ablaze a great forest.James 3:5
James 3:6 And so the tongue is like a fire, comprising all iniquity. The tongue, stationed in the midst of our body, can defile the entire body and inflame the wheel of our nativity, setting a fire from Hell.James 3:6
James 3:8 But no man is able to rule over the tongue, a restless evil, full of deadly poison.James 3:8
Number of the word / term Tongue in James: 4
Bible passages with ‘Tongue’ in the book 1 Peter
1 Peter 3:10 For whoever wants to love life and to see good days should restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips, so that they utter no deceit.1 Peter 3:10
Number of the word / term ‘Tongue’ in 1 Peter: 1
These texts are taken from the following version: Catholic Public Domain Version.
Number of Bible Verses found on the topic: 99
