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James 3:7
For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;

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James 3:8
but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Matthew 12:34
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Matthew 12:35
The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

Matthew 12:36
I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

Matthew 12:37
For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

James 1:26
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

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Genesis 9:2
The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.

Genesis 1:26
God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Psalms 8:6
You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

Hebrews 2:8
You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don’t yet see all things subjected to him.

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Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalms 64:3
who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

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