23 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech

So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!

And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

But the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might catch him in talk.

Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might ensnare him in his talk.

laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth.

And they were not able to take hold of the saying before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.

He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his life; But he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

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

For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.

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

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

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and they defile the man.

And it came to pass, as they were parting from him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah: not knowing what he said.

Wherefore whatsoever ye have said in the darkness shall be heard in the light; and what ye have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

And they watched him, and sent forth spies, who feigned themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his speech, so as to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor.

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

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

Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, Thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

He saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I am an austere man, taking up that which I laid not down, and reaping that which I did not sow;