23 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech

So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles.

And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.

But no man is able to tame the tongue of men, an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.

And they send some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, so that they might catch him in talk.

Then the Pharisees having departed, they took counsel how they might trap him in his talk.

waiting to ambush him, seeking to catch something out of his mouth so that they might accuse him.

And they were unable to lay hold of his word before the people. And having marveled at his answer, they were silent.

He who guards his mouth keeps his life. He who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou know it altogether.

But when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye should speak, for it will be given you in that hour what ye will speak.

Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

But the things coming out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and those things defile the man.

And it came to pass, as they were departing from him, Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here, and we could make three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah, not knowing what he was sayi

Therefore, as many things as ye have said in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what ye have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers will be proclaimed upon the housetops.

And having watched him, they sent forth insidious men pretending themselves to be righteous, so that they might take hold of his word, in order to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor.

For we all stumble in many things. If any man does not stumble in word, this is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

thou are snared with the words of thy mouth, thou are taken with the words of thy mouth.

But I say to you, that every idle word, whatever men may speak, they will render account about it in the day of judgment.

For from thy words thou will be justified, and from thy words thou will be condemned.

He says to him, Out of thy mouth I will judge thee, thou evil bondman. Thou had known that I am an austere man taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow.