23 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech

Thus also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles!

and the tongue is fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell.

but the tongue can no one among men tame; it is an unsettled evil, full of death-bringing poison.

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

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

Then went the Pharisees and held a council how they might ensnare him in speaking.

watching him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

And they were not able to take hold of him in his expressions before the people, and, wondering at his answer, they were silent.

He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his soul; destruction shall be to him that openeth wide his lips.

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

For there is not yet a word on my tongue, but lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.

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

Offspring of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being wicked? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

but the things which go forth out of the mouth come out of the heart, and those defile man.

And it came to pass as they departed from him, Peter said to 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 Elias: not knowing what he said.

therefore whatever ye have said in the darkness shall be heard in the light, and what ye have spoken in the ear in chambers shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

And having watched him, they sent out suborned persons, pretending to be just men, that they might take hold of him in his language, so that they might deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

For we all often offend. If any one offend not in word, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body too.

A fool's mouth is destruction to him, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

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

But I say unto you, that every idle word which men shall say, they shall render an account of it in judgment-day:

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

He says to him, Out of thy mouth will I judge thee, wicked bondman: thou knewest that I am a harsh man, taking up what I have not laid down and reaping what I have not sowed.