23 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.

Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.

Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

And it came to pass, as they departed from him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said.

Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow: