23 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech

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

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So the tongue is set among our members, spotting all the body and inflaming the course of nature, and being inflamed by hell.

But no one can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.

And they sent certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to Him, to catch Him in His words.

Then the Pharisees left and took counsel that they might entangle Him in words.

lying in ambush for Him, and seeking to catch something out of His mouth, so that they might accuse Him.

And they could not take hold of His words before the people. And they marveled at His answer and were silent.

He who keeps his mouth keeps his life; he who opens his lips wide, it is ruin to him.

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, 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.

Offspring of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

But the things which come out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile the man.

And in their parting from Him, it happened that Peter said to Jesus, Master, 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 whatever you have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light. And that which you have spoken in the ear in secret rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.

And they watched and sent forth spies, pretending themselves to be righteous men, so that they might seize upon a word of His, that they might deliver Him in this way to the power and authority of the governor.

For in many things we all offend. If anyone does not offend in word, the same is a full-grown man, 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 to you that every idle word, whatever men may speak, they shall give account of it in the day of judgment.

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

And he said to him, I will judge you out of your own mouth, wicked servant! You knew that I was a harsh man, taking up what I had not laid down and reaping what I did not sow.