34 Bible Verses about Curbing Speech

"{Let me have silence}, and I myself will speak, and let come over me whatever [may].

"Listen attentively, Job; listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

If not, you listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom."

Turn to me and be appalled, and place [your] hand on [your] mouth.

Be still, inhabitants of [the] coast, merchant of Sidon, who travels over [the] sea, they filled you.

Sit silently and go into the darkness, daughter of Chaldea, for {they shall no longer call} you mistress of kingdoms.

O Yahweh, let me not be put to shame, for I call on you. Let the wicked be put to shame. Let them [go] silently to Sheol.

Let lying lips be dumb, that speak against [the] righteous unrestrained with arrogance and contempt.

Understand [this], my dear brothers: every person must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be quick to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and you [are] on earth; therefore, let your words be few.

Be silent before the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh draws near, for Yahweh has provided a sacrifice and has consecrated his guests.

Then Moses and the priests, the Levites, spoke to all Israel, saying, "Be silent and hear, Israel, [for] this day you have become {a people} for Yahweh your God.

But he turned back from the sculptured stones that [were] near Gilgal, and he said, "I have {a secret message} for you, O king." And he said, "Silence!" So all those standing in his presence went out,

And they said to him, "Keep quiet! Put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be for us a father and a priest. Is it better being a priest for a house of one man or being a priest for a tribe and clan in Israel?"

And [if] one's relative, who burns [the body], lifts it up and brings the body out of the house and he will say to someone in the innermost part of the house, "[Are there] any more with you?" and he will say, "None," then he will say, "Silence," because [we] must not invoke the name of Yahweh.

"And the songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day," {declares} my Lord Yahweh. "The corpses are numerous; he throws them in every place. Be quiet!"

Be silent, {all people}, before Yahweh, for he is roused from {his holy dwelling}."

But Joshua commanded the people, saying, "You will not shout, and you will not let your voice be heard; a word will not go out from your mouth until the day I say to you 'Shout!' Then you will shout."

And the descendants of Dan said to him, "You should not let your voice be heard among us, so that {ill-tempered men} {will not attack you}, {and take your life} and the lives of your household."

my lips surely will not speak falseness, and my tongue surely will not utter deceit.

that you turn your spirit against God, and you let [such] words go out of your mouth?

For "The one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and [his] lips must not speak deceit.

Do not put faith in a friend; put no trust in a close friend. Guard the doorways of your mouth from the one who lies in your lap.

For I will not dare to speak about anything except [that] which Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed,

In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some are disobedient to the word, they may be won over without a word by the conduct of their wives,

But if there is no interpreter, he must be silent in the church, but let him speak to himself and to God.

And if [something] is revealed to another who is seated, the first must be silent.

But I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man, but {to remain quiet}.

A woman must learn in quietness with all submission.

Teach me, and I myself will be silent; and make me understand how I have gone astray.

"Look, I am insignificant. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

" 'And you will be attentive to all that I have said to you, and you will not {profess} the name of other gods; it will not be heard in your mouth.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints),

For it is shameful even to speak [about] the things being [done] by them in secret,