23 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech

so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!

and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

and they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they may ensnare him in discourse,

Then the Pharisees having gone, took counsel how they might ensnare him in words,

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

and they were not able to take hold on his saying before the people, and having wondered at his answer, they were silent.

Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips -- ruin to him!

Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.

For there is not a word in my tongue, Lo, O Jehovah, Thou hast known it all!

'And whenever they may deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye may speak, for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak;

Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things -- being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.

but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man;

And it came to pass, in their parting from him, Peter said unto Jesus, 'Master, it is good to us to be here; and we may make three booths, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah,' not knowing what he saith:

because whatever in the darkness ye said, in the light shall be heard: and what to the ear ye spake in the inner-chambers, shall be proclaimed upon the house-tops.

And, having watched him, they sent forth liers in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his word, to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor,

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

The mouth of a fool is ruin to him, And his lips are the snare of his soul.

Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,

'And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.'

'And he saith to him, Out of thy mouth I will judge thee, evil servant: thou knewest that I am an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow!