Quotes about Tongues
The one who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but the one who prophesies edifies the church.
— 1 Corinthians 14:4
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
— Romans 3:13
But these matters of life and faith cannot be expressed in the tongues of modernity, for it is this very epistemology that has consigned us to death and despair.
— Walter Brueggemann
The bitter heart-burnings, and the war of tongues, which is so often the prelude to other wars.
— Edmund Burke
Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people
— Isaiah 28:11
They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.
— Acts 2:3
"Friend deceives friend, and no-one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning. You live in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me."
— Jeremiah 9:5-6
So Gideon brought the people down to the water, and the LORD said to him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues like a dog from those who kneel to drink.”
— Judges 7:5
“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 9:3
Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.
— Revelation 17:15
Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.
— Jeremiah 9:8
“Yes,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who wag their own tongues and proclaim, ‘The LORD declares it.’”
— Jeremiah 23:31