17 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech

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James 3:5

So the tongue, too, is a little organ but can boast of great achievements. See how a spark, ever so tiny, can set a vast forest on fire!

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, and takes its place among the parts of our bodies as a world of evil; it soils the whole body and sets on fire the circle of man's nature, and itself is set on fire by hell.

James 3:8

but the tongue no human being can tame. It is an evil incapable of being quieted, full of deadly poison.

Luke 11:54

plotting, as if in ambush, to entrap Him in something that might fall from His lips.

Luke 20:26

So they could not use what he said before the people, and in astonishment at His answer they said no more.

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers! How can you, wicked as you are, say anything that is good? For the mouth talks about the things that fill the heart.

Matthew 15:18

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and they make the man foul.

Luke 9:33

And just as they were starting to leave Him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" -- although he did not know what he was saying.

Luke 12:3

because what you have spoken in darkness will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in people's ears, behind closed doors, will be proclaimed from the housetops.

Luke 20:20

So they closely watched and sent spies who pretended to be upright men, to catch Him in His conversation, so as to turn Him over to the power and authority of the governor.

Matthew 12:37

for it is by your words that you will be acquitted and by your words that you will be condemned."

Luke 19:22

He said to him, 'On the ground of what you say I will sentence you, you wicked slave! You knew that I was a stern man, that I picked up what I did not put down, and reaped what I did not sow.

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