23 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech
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Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire from hell.
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit of it.
And they sent to him certain of the Pharisees, and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something from his mouth, that they might accuse him.
And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marveled at his answer, and held their peace.
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
But when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye shall speak, for it shall be given to you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
And it came to pass, as they departed from him, Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah: not knowing what he said.
Therefore, whatever ye have spoken in darkness, shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets, shall be proclaimed upon the house-tops.
And they watched him, and sent forth spies, who should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him to the power and authority of the governor.
For in many things we all offend. If any man offendeth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
But I say to you, That for every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account in the day of judgment.
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
And he saith to him, Out of thy own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest me to be an austere man, taking up what I laid not down, and reaping what I did not sow:
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