23 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech

So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.

And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence -- and is set on fire by hell.

But no human being can subdue the tongue; it is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love its use will eat its fruit.

Then they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to trap him with his own words.

Then the Pharisees went out and planned together to entrap him with his own words.

plotting against him, to catch him in something he might say.

Thus they were unable in the presence of the people to trap him with his own words. And stunned by his answer, they fell silent.

The one who guards his words guards his life, but whoever is talkative will come to ruin.

O Lord, place a guard on my mouth! Protect the opening of my lips!

Certainly my tongue does not frame a word without you, O Lord, being thoroughly aware of it.

Whenever they hand you over for trial, do not worry about how to speak or what to say, for what you should say will be given to you at that time.

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a person.

Then as the men were starting to leave, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three shelters, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah" -- not knowing what he was saying.

So then whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.

Then they watched him carefully and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They wanted to take advantage of what he might say so that they could deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual, able to control the entire body as well.

The mouth of a fool is his ruin, and his lips are a snare for his life.

if you have been ensnared by the words you have uttered, and have been caught by the words you have spoken,

I tell you that on the day of judgment, people will give an account for every worthless word they speak.

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."

The king said to him, 'I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn't deposit and reaping what I didn't sow?