23 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech

The tongue also is a little member. It boasts great things. Consider how great a forest fire a small fire kindles!

The tongue is like fire, the place of iniquity among our members. It defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of our life. It is set ablaze like the ever-burning fires in the Valley of Hinnom (Greek: Gehenna: symbolic of total destruction).

But no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil. It is full of deadly poison.

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

Pharisees and Herodians went to him that they might catch him in talk.

The Pharisees took counsel how they might trap him in his talk.

They plotted against him and tried to catch him in something he might say.

They were not able to apprehend him in front of the people. They were amazed by his answer and kept quiet.

He who keeps his mouth (watches what he says) keeps his life. He who opens wide his lips (speaks thoughtlessly) will have destruction.

O Jehovah, set a guard at my mouth. Keep watch over the door of my lips.

Even before I speak words from my tongue, behold, O Jehovah, You know it all.

When they hand you over, do not worry about what to say and how to say it. You will be given the words to speak at that time.

You offspring of vipers. How can you who are evil speak good things? Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

That which comes out of the mouth, comes from the heart and makes a man unclean.

Before they left Peter said to Jesus: Master it is good for us to be here. Let us make three tabernacles. We could make one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah. He did not know what he was saying.

That which you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. That which you have spoken in the inner chambers will be proclaimed on the housetops.

They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous. The spies listened for something in his speech to deliver him up to the authority of the governor.

We all stumble in many things. If any do not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able to restrain (control) the whole body.

A fool's mouth is his ruin. His lips are the snares of his life.

You are snared with the words of your mouth. You are captured by the words of your mouth!

I tell you there will be an account in the Judgment Day for every careless word that men say.

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 I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I am an austere man, taking up that which I did not lay down, and reaping that which I did not sow.