17 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech

so also the tongue is a little member, and it boasts great things. Behold, how great a wood a little fire kindles!

The tongue, a fire, the world of iniquity: the tongue sits down in the midst of our members, and corrupting the whole body, and setting on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire from hell.

but no one of men is able to tame the tongue; an incorrigible evil, full of deadly poison.

And they send to Him certain ones of the Pharisees and Herodians, that they may catch Him with speech.

Then the Pharisees going forth, took counsel how they might ensnare Him in His speech.

laying in wait, to catch something from His mouth.

And they were not able to criticise His word before the people: and being astonished at His answer, they were silent.

And when they may deliver you, be not solicitous how or what you may speak: for it will be given unto you in that hour what you may say.

O ye generations of vipers, how are you, being evil, able to speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

But those things going out from the mouth come forth from the heart; and these pollute the man.

It came to pass when 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 Elijah: not knowing what he says.

Therefore so many things as you spoke in the darkness shall be heard in the light; and whatsoever you spoke in the ear in the secret chambers shall be proclaimed upon the houses.

And laying in wait for Him, they sent sharpers, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might catch his word, in order to turn Him over to the government and authority of the proconsul.

For we all fail in many things; if any one fails not in word, the same is a perfect man, able even to bridle the whole body.

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

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

And he says to him, Out of thine own mouth I will judge thee, thou wicked servant. Didst thou know that I am an austere man, taking up what I have not laid down, and reaping what I have not sown?