33 Bible Verses about Curbing Speech

Be quiet. Let me alone that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

Mark well, O Job, hearken to me. Keep silent, and I will speak.

If not, hearken thou to me. Keep silent, and I will teach thee.

Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

Be still, ye inhabitants of the coast, thou whom the merchants of Sidon, who pass over the sea, have replenished.

Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for thou shall no more be called The mistress of kingdoms.

Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I have called upon thee. Let the wicked be put to shame. Let them be silent in Sheol.

Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak against the righteous man insolently, with pride and contempt.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth. Therefore let thy words be few.

Hold thy peace at the presence of lord LORD, for the day of LORD is at hand. For LORD has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.

And Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, Keep silence, and hearken, O Israel. This day thou have become the people of LORD thy God.

But he himself turned back from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand to thee, O king. And he said, Keep silence. And all who stood by him went out from him.

And they said to him, Hold thy peace, lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for thee to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?

And when a man's uncle shall take him up, even he who burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No, then he sh

And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, says lord LORD. The dead bodies shall be many. In every place they shall cast them forth with silence.

Be silent, all flesh, before LORD, for he has arisen out of his holy habitation.

And Joshua commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth until the day I bid you shout. Then ye shall shout.

And the sons of Dan said to him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall upon you, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.

Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor shall my tongue utter deceit.

that against God thou turn thy spirit, and let words go out of thy mouth?

For he who wants to love life, and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips not to speak deceit.

Trust ye not in a neighbor. Put ye not confidence in a friend. Keep the doors of thy mouth from her who lays in thy bosom.

For I will not dare to speak anything of which Christ did not accomplish through me for the obedience of Gentiles, by word and work,

Likewise the wives, being subordinate to their own husbands, so that even if any are disobedient to the word, they will be gained without a word by the behavior of the wives,

But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silence in an assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.

But if it should be revealed to another man who is seated, let the first be silent.

But I do not allow a woman to teach, nor to act autonomously from a man, but to be in quietness.

Let a woman learn in silence in all subjection.

Teach me, and I will be quiet. And cause me to understand how I have erred.

And in all things that I have said to you take ye heed, and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or greed, shall not even be named among you as befits the sanctified,

For it is disgusting even to speak of the things happening by them secretly.