Bible Verses About Tongue: Restrained by wisdom

One acquainted with knowledge is sparing his words, And the cool of temper is a man of understanding.

Whoso is keeping his mouth and his tongue, Is keeping from adversities his soul.

A time to rend, And a time to sew. A time to be silent, And a time to speak.

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain is the religion;

Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive,

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

lo, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and their whole body we turn about;

lo, also the ships, being so great, and by fierce winds being driven, are led about by a very small helm, whithersoever the impulse of the helmsman doth counsel,

so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!

and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature,

and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God;

out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

doth the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter?

is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water is able to make.