23 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles!

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, 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 sent unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.

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

Lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch something from his mouth, that they might accuse him.

And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marveled at his answer, and held their peace.

He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

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

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

But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what you shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what you shall speak.

O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

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

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

Therefore whatsoever you have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which you have spoken in the ear in private rooms shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

And they watched him, and sent forth spies, who should pretend themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

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

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

You are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.

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

For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.

And he said unto him, Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was a severe man, taking up what I laid not down, and reaping what I did not sow: