17 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech

In the same way the tongue is an insignificant part of the body, but it is immensely boastful. Remember how a mere spark may set a vast forest in flames.

And the tongue is a fire. That world of iniquity, the tongue, is placed within us spotting and soiling our whole nature, and setting the whole round of our lives on fire, being itself set on fire by Gehenna.

But the tongue no man or woman is able to tame. It is an ever-busy mischief, and is full of deadly poison.

Their next step was to send to Him some of the Pharisees and of Herod's partisans to entrap Him in conversation.

Then the Pharisees went and consulted together how they might entrap Him in His conversation.

lying in wait to catch some unguarded expression from His lips.

There was nothing here that they could lay hold of before the people, and marvelling at His answer they said no more.

But when they have delivered you up, have no anxiety as to how you shall speak or what you shall say; for at that very time it shall be given you what to say;

O vipers' brood, how can you speak what is good when you are evil? For it is from the overflow of the heart that the mouth speaks.

But the things that come out of the mouth proceed from the heart, and it is these that defile the man.

And when they were preparing to depart from Him, Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, we are thankful to you that we are here. Let us put up three tents--one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." He did not know what he was saying.

Whatever therefore you have said in the dark, will be heard in the light; and what you have whispered within closed doors will be proclaimed from the house-tops.

So, after impatiently watching their opportunity, they sent spies who were to act the part of good and honest men, that they might fasten on some expression of His, so as to hand Him over to the ruling power and the Governor's authority.

For we often stumble and fall, all of us. If there is any one who never stumbles in speech, that man has reached maturity of character and is able to curb his whole nature.

But I tell you that for every careless word that men shall speak they will be held accountable on the day of Judgement.

For each of you by his words shall be justified, or by his words shall be condemned."

"'By your own words,' he replied, 'I will judge you, you bad servant. You knew me to be a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow: