But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.
What is it then, my brothers? when you come together everyone has a holy song, or a revelation, or a tongue, or is giving the sense of it. Let everything be done for the common good.
If any man makes use of a tongue, let it not be more than two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let someone give the sense:
So if you, in using a strange tongue, say words which have no sense, how will anyone take in what you are saying? for you will be talking to the air.
My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.
For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit:
The spirit of the Lord had voice through me, his word was on my tongue.
And for this cause my heart was glad and my tongue full of joy, and my flesh will be resting in hope:
But against the children of Israel, man or beast, not so much as the tongue of a dog will be moved: so that you may see how the Lord makes a division between Israel and the Egyptians.
And Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not a man of words; I have never been so, and am not now, even after what you have said to your servant: for talking is hard for me, and I am slow of tongue.
And I will make your tongue fixed to the roof of your mouth, so that you have no voice and may not make protests to them: for they are an uncontrolled people.
And all the earth had one language and one tongue.
And the Lord will make the tongue of the Egyptian sea completely dry; and with his burning wind his hand will be stretched out over the River, and it will be parted into seven streams, so that men may go over it with dry feet.
No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people:
See, the name of the Lord is coming from far, burning with his wrath, with thick smoke going up: his lips are full of passion, and his tongue is like a burning fire:
The man of sudden impulses will become wise in heart, and he whose tongue is slow will get the power of talking clearly.
Never again will you see the cruel people, a people whose tongue has no sense for you; whose language is strange to you.
The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.
By myself have I taken an oath, a true word has gone from my mouth, and will not be changed, that to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give honour.
The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced:
No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.
Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,
For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.
If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.
Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!
And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.
But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.
His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.
For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.
Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;
He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.
Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my tongue does not say what is false.
See, now my mouth is open, my tongue gives out words.
Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue?
He will keep you safe from the evil tongue; and you will have no fear of wasting when it comes.
Is there evil in my tongue? is not the cause of my trouble clear to me?
The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.
And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame.
And straight away his mouth was open and his tongue was free and he gave praise to God.
And he took him on one side from the people privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he put water from his mouth on the man's tongue with his finger;
And his ears became open, and the band of his tongue was made loose, and his words became clear.
For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.
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