17 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech

So the tongue is a little organ and yet very boastful. What a great forest a spark will set on fire!

And the tongue is a fire, a world of wrong the tongue proves in our bodies, soiling the whole body and setting fire to the whole round of nature, and set on fire itself by hell.

but no human being can tame the tongue. It is an irreconcilable evil, full of deadly poison.

They sent some Pharisees and Herodians to him to entrap him in argument.

Then the Pharisees went and made a plot to entrap him in argument.

plotting to entrap him in something he might say.

So they could not fasten on what he said before the people, and they were amazed at his answer, and said nothing more.

But when they give you up, you must have no anxiety about how to speak or what to say, for you will be told at the very moment what you ought to say,

You brood of snakes! how can you, bad as you are, utter anything good? For the mouth says only what the heart is full of.

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and they pollute a man.

Just as they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is that we are here! Let us put up three huts, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah!" For he did not know what he was saying.

For what you say in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what you whisper in someone's ear, behind closed doors, will be proclaimed from the housetops.

So they kept watch of him and set some spies who pretended to be honest men to fasten on something that he said, so that they might hand him over to the control and authority of the governor.

For we all make many mistakes. Anyone who never makes a mistake in what he says has a character that is fully developed and is able to control his whole body as well.

But I tell you, for every careless word that men utter they will have to answer on the Day of Judgment.

For it is by your words that you will be acquitted, or by your words that you will be condemned."

He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth I will convict you, you wretched slave! You knew, did you, that I was a stern man, and that I pick up what I did not lay down, and harvest what I did not sow?