17 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech

So the tongue is a small member of the body, but it can boast of great exploits. What a forest is set ablaze by a little spark of fire!

And the tongue is a fire, the tongue proves a very world of mischief among our members, staining the whole of the body and setting fire to the round circle of existence with a flame fed by hell.

no man can tame the tongue ??plague of disorder that it is, full of deadly venom!

But they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to him for the purpose of catching him with a question.

Then the Pharisees went and plotted to trap him in talk.

lying in ambush to catch a word from his lips.

So they could not seize on what he said before the people, and marvelling at his reply they said nothing.

Now, when they bring you up for trial, do not trouble yourselves about how to speak or what to say; what you are to say will come to you at the moment,

You brood of vipers, how can you speak good when you are evil? For the mouth utters what the heart is full of.

while what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart ??and that is what defiles a man.

When they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is a good thing we are here; let us put up three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" (not knowing what he was saying).

So all you utter in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you whisper in chambers will be proclaimed on the housetops,

So watching their chance they sent spies who pretended to be honest persons, in order to seize on what he said and get him handed over to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

We all make many a slip, but whoever avoids slips of speech is a perfect man; he can bridle the whole of the body as well as the tongue.

I tell you, men will have to account on the day of judgment for every light word they utter;

for by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned."

He replied, 'You rascal of a servant, I will convict you by what you have said yourself. You knew, did you, that I was a hard man, picking up what I never put down, and reaping what I never sowed!