17 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech

So also the tongue is a small member and makes great boasts. Behold, how great a forest is set on fire by a little spark!

And the tongue is a fire; it is a very world of iniquity among our members, defiling the whole body, and setting on fire the wheel of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell.

no man can tame the tongue, restless evil that it is, full of deadly poison.

But they sent some of the Pharisees to Jesus afterward, and some of the Herodians to entrap him in conversation.

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might ensnare him during conversation.

laying in wait for him, in order to catch a word from his lips.

So they could not lay hold of his sayings before the people; and marveling at his answer, they held their peace.

"But whenever they apprehend you, do not be anxious about how you shall speak or what you shall say; for it will be given you in that very hour what to say.

"You generation of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. "When the time of fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the vine-dressers seized to get his fruit.

while what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart??nd that is what defiles a man.

And when they were preparing to depart from him Peter said to Jesus. "Master, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah"??ot knowing what he was saying.

"So that what you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light; and what you have whispered in the inner chambers shall be proclaimed from the housetops.

So they watched him, and sent spies who pretended to be honest men, in order to seize on his speech, and to deliver him up to authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

For in many respects we often stumble. If any man never stumbles in speech, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well.

"I tell you that for every careless word that men speak they shall give account on the day of judgment.

"For by your words you will each be justified, and by your words be condemned."

"He said to him, "'By your own words I will Judge you, you wicked slave. You knew, did you, that I was a hard man taking up what I did not lay down, reaping what I did not sow.