34 Bible Verses about Curbing Speech
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If there are not -- hearken thou to me, Keep silent, and I teach thee wisdom.
Be silent, ye inhabitants of the isle, Trader of Zidon, passing the sea, they filled thee.
O Jehovah, let me not be ashamed, For I have called Thee, let the wicked be ashamed, Let them become silent to Sheol.
Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.
So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
Cause not thy mouth to hasten, and let not thy heart hasten to bring out a word before God, for God is in the heavens, and thou on the earth, therefore let thy words be few.
Hush! because of the Lord Jehovah, For near is a day of Jehovah, For prepared hath Jehovah a sacrifice, He hath sanctified His invited ones.
And Moses speaketh -- the priests, the Levites, also -- unto all Israel, saying, 'Keep silent, and hear, O Israel, this day thou hast become a people to Jehovah thy God;
and he himself hath turned back from the graven images which are at Gilgal, and saith, 'A secret word I have unto thee, O king;' and he saith, 'Hush!' and go out from him do all those standing by him.
and they say to him, 'Keep silent, lay thy hand on thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us for a father and for a priest: is it better thy being a priest to the house of one man, or thy being priest to a tribe and to a family in Israel?'
And lifted him up hath his loved one, even his burner, To bring forth the bones from the house, And he said to him who is in the sides of the house, 'Is there yet with thee?' And he said, 'None,' then he said, 'Hush! Save to make mention of the name of Jehovah.'
And howled have songstresses of a palace in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Many are the carcases, into any place throw -- hush!
Hush, all flesh, because of Jehovah, For He hath been roused up from His holy habitation!'
and the people hath Joshua commanded, saying, 'Ye do not shout, nor cause your voice to be heard, nor doth there go out from your mouth a word, till the day of my saying unto you, Shout ye -- then ye have shouted.'
And the sons of Dan say unto him, 'Let not thy voice be heard with us, lest men bitter in soul fall upon you, and thou hast gathered thy life, and the life of thy household;'
for 'he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips -- not to speak guile;
Believe not in a friend, trust not in a leader, From her who is lying in thy bosom keep the openings of thy mouth.
for I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed,
In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,
and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.
Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.
and in all that which I have said unto you ye do take heed; and the name of other gods ye do not mention; it is not heard on thy mouth.
and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
for the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to speak of,
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- Curbing (2 instances)