34 Bible Verses about Curbing Speech

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

Hear this, Job, listen to me; be silent and I will speak.

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

Turn to me and be amazed, and lay your hand on your mouth.

Be still, inhabitants of the coast, merchant of Sidon, who pass over the sea. They have filled you.

Sit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.

Let me not be ashamed, O Jehovah; for I have called on You; Let the wicked be ashamed; let them be silent in the grave.

Let the lying lips be put to silence; the lips which speak proudly against the righteous, with pride and scorn.

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

Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be hasty to say a word before God. For God is in Heaven, and you are on earth; therefore let your words be few.

Be silent before the face of the Lord Jehovah, for the day of Jehovah is at hand. For Jehovah has appointed a sacrifice; He has consecrated His called ones.

And Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying: Take heed and listen, O Israel. Today you have become the people of Jehovah your God.

But he himself turned again from the graven images by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret message for you, O, king. And he said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.

And they said to him, Be quiet, lay your hand on your mouth and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be a priest to the house of one man, or that you be a priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?

And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he who burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say to him left in the recesses of the house, Are any still with you? And he shall say, No. Then he shall say, Hush! For not one shall mention the name of Jehovah.

And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, says the Lord Jehovah. The dead bodies shall be many. In every place one shall throw them out, saying, Hush!

Be silent, all flesh, before Jehovah; for He has risen out of His holy dwelling place.

And Joshua had commanded the people saying, You shall not shout nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word come out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.

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

my lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

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

For he that wants to love life and to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile.

Put no trust in a friend; put no hope in a guide; keep the door of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ did not work out by me for the obedience of the nations in word and deed,

Likewise, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, so that if any do not obey the Word, they may also be won without the Word by the conduct of the wives,

But if there is no interpreter, let him be silent in a church; and let him speak to himself and to God.

If a revelation is revealed to another sitting by, let the first be silent.

But I do not allow a woman to teach, or to exercise authority over a man, but to be in silence.

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

Teach me, and I will be silent; and cause me to understand where I have gone astray.

Behold, I am vile! What shall I answer You? I will lay my hand on my mouth.

And be watchful in all that I have said to you. And make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of your mouth.

For let fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness not be once named among you, as becomes saints,

For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.