34 Bible Verses about Curbing Speech

Hold your peace from me, and I will speak, and let come on me what will!

Mark well, Job, hearken unto me; be silent, and I will speak.

If not, hearken thou unto me; be silent, and I will teach thee wisdom.

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

Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle! The merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished thee.

Sit silent, and get thee into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called, Mistress of kingdoms.

Jehovah, let me not be ashamed; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, let them be silent in Sheol.

Let the lying lips become dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

So that, my beloved brethren, 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 the heavens, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.

Be silent at the presence of the Lord Jehovah; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; for Jehovah hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath hallowed his guests.

And Moses and the priests, the Levites, spoke to all Israel, saying, Be silent and hearken, Israel! this day thou art become the people of Jehovah thy God.

But he himself turned back at the sculptured stones near Gilgal, and said, "I have a secret message for you, O king." And he commanded, "Silence." And all his attendants went out from his presence.

And they said to him, "Keep quiet, put your hand upon your mouth, and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and family in Israel?"

And a man's uncle, and he that should burn him, shall take him up to bring out the bones from the house, and shall say unto him that is in the inner parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, None. And he will say, Silence! for we may not make mention of Jehovah's name.

And the songs of the palace shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah. The dead bodies shall be many; in every place they shall be cast forth. Silence!

Let all flesh be silent before Jehovah; for he is risen up out of his holy habitation.

And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall a word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I say to you, Shout; then shall ye shout.

And the Danites said to him, "Do not let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall upon you, and you lose your life with the lives of your household."

My lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor my tongue utter deceit!

That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest words go out of thy mouth?

For he that will love life and see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil and his lips that they speak no guile.

Believe ye not in a companion, put not confidence in a familiar friend: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which Christ has not wrought by me, for the obedience of the nations, by word and deed,

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, that, even if any are disobedient to the word, they may be gained without the word by the conversation of the wives,

but if there be no interpreter, let him be silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.

But if there be a revelation to another sitting there, let the first be silent.

but I do not suffer a woman to teach nor to exercise authority over man, but to be in quietness;

Let a woman learn in quietness in all subjection;

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

Behold, I am nought: what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

And ye shall be on your guard as to everything that I have said unto you; and shall make no mention of the name of other gods it shall not be heard in thy mouth.

But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;

for the things that are done by them in secret it is shameful even to say.