17 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech

So the tongue also is a little member, yet boasteth great things. Behold how much matter a little fire kindleth.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: it is the tongue among the members which defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell.

But the tongue can no man tame: it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

And they send to him certain of the Pharisees, and of the Herodians, to catch him his talk.

Then went the Pharisees and consulted, how to insnare him in his talk.

Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

And they could not take hold of his words before the people; and marvelling at his answer, they held their peace.

But when they deliver you, take no thought, how or what ye shall speak; for it shall be given you in that very hour what ye shall speak.

Ye brood 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 out of the heart, and they defile the man.

And just as they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tents, ane for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah, not knowing what he said.

So that whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness, shall be heard in the light, and what ye have whispered in closets shall be proclaimed on the house-tops.

And watching him, they sent forth spies, feigning themselves to be just men, to take hold of his discourse, that they might deliver him to the power and authority of the governour.

For in many things we offend all. If any one offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

But I say to you, That every idle word which men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

For by thy words thou shalt be justified, or 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 that I am an austere man, taking up what I laid not down, and reaping what I did not sow.