Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation We use it to give thanks to our Lord and Father and also to curse other people, who are created in the likeness of God. New Revised Standard Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge By it we bless God and the Father: and by it we curse men who are made after the likeness of God. Therewith. Psalm 16:9 Therefore my heart hath been glad, and my tongue hath rejoiced: moreover, my flesh also shall rest in hope. Psalm 30:12 To the end that my glory may sing to thee, and I may not regret: O Lord my God, I will give praise to thee for ever. Psalm 35:28 And my tongue shall meditate thy justice, thy praise all the day long. Psalm 51:14 Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall extol thy justice. Psalm 57:8 Arise, O my glory, arise psaltery and harp: I will arise early. Psalm 62:4 But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst: they blessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart. Psalm 71:24 Yea and my tongue shall meditate on thy justice all the day; when they shall be confounded and put to shame that seek evils to me. Psalm 108:1 A canticle of a psalm for David himself. [2] My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and will give praise, with my glory. Acts 2:26 For this my heart hath been glad, and my tongue hath rejoiced: moreover my flesh also shall rest in hope. bless. 1 Chronicles 29:10,20 And he blessed the Lord before all the multitude, and he said: Blessed art thou, O Lord the God of Israel, our father from eternity to eternity. . . . Psalm 34:1 For David, when he changed his countenance before Achimelech, who dismissed him, and he went his way. [2] I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall be always in my mouth. Psalm 63:4 Thus will I bless thee all my life long: and in thy name I will lift up my hands. Psalm 145:1,21 Praise, for David himself. I will extol thee, O God my king: and I will bless thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever. . . . Isaiah 29:13 And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips glorify me, but their heart is far from me, and they have feared me with the commandment and doctrines of men: Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with spiritual blessings in heavenly places, in Christ: 1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead: therewith curse. Judges 9:27 Went out into the fields, wasting the vineyards, and treading down the grapes: and singing and dancing, they went into the temple of their god, and in their banquets and cups they cursed Abimelech. 2 Samuel 16:5 And king David came as far as Bahurim: and behold there came out from thence a man of the kindred of the house of Saul named Semei, the son of Gera, and coming out he cursed as he went on, 2 Samuel 19:21 But Abisai the son of Sarvia answering, said: Shall Semei for these words not be put to death, because he cursed the Lord's anointed? Psalm 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deceit: under his tongue are labor and sorrow. Psalm 59:12 For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride. And for their cursing and lying they shall be talked of, Psalm 109:17,18 But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death. . . . Ecclesiastes 7:22 For thy conscience knoweth that thou also hast often spoken evil of others. Matthew 5:44 But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you: Matthew 26:74 Then he began to curse and to swear that he knew not the man. And immediately the cock crew. Romans 3:14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: made. Genesis 1:26,27 And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth. . . . Genesis 5:1 This is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God. Genesis 9:6 Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God. 1 Corinthians 11:7 The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man. Context Taming the Tongue…8But the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet evil, full of deadly poison. 9By it we bless God and the Father: and by it we curse men who are made after the likeness of God. 10Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.… Cross References Genesis 1:26 And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth. 1 Corinthians 11:7 The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man. James 1:27 Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep one's self unspotted from this world. James 3:10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. 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