23 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest.

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

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

They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.

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

lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say.

They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Set a watch, LORD, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, LORD, you know it altogether.

But when they deliver you up, do not be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.

You 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 proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

It happened, as they were parting from him, that Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three tents: one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah," not knowing what he said.

Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers will be proclaimed on the housetops.

They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

For in many things we all stumble. If anyone does not stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

But I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

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

"He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I did not lay down, and reaping that which I did not sow.