34 Bible Verses about Curbing Speech

Quietly let me alone, that, I, may speak out, then let come on me, what may.

Mark well, O Job, and hearken to me, Be silent, and, I, will speak:

If not, do, thou, hearken unto me, Be silent, that I may teach thee wisdom.

Turn round to me, and be astonished, and lay hand on mouth!

Be dumb, ye inhabitants of the Coast, - Whom the merchants of Zidon, passing over the sea, once replenished;

Sit silent, and get into darkness, Daughter of the Chaldeans! For thou shalt no more be called Mistress of Kingdoms.

O Yahweh! let me not be ashamed, For I have called upon thee, Let the lawless ha ashamed, go down in silence to hades!

Let false lips be made dumb, - which are speaking - against a righteous one - arrogantly, with pride and contempt.

Ye know, my brethren beloved, - but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

Be not rash with thy mouth, and, with thy heart, be not in haste to bring forth a word, before God, - for, God, is in the heavens, and, thou, upon the earth, for this cause, let thy words be few.

Hush! at the presence of My Lord, Yahweh, - for, near, is the day of Yahweh, for Yahweh hath prepared his sacrifice, hath hallowed his guests.

And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel saying, - Keep silence and hear O Israel, This day, hast thou been made a people unto Yahweh thy God.

but, he himself, turned back from the images that were by Gilgal, and said, A secret word, have I, unto thee, O king! And he said - Silence! Thereupon went out from his presence all who had been standing near him.

And they said unto him - Hold thy peace, lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and become to us a father and a priest, - is it better that thou be priest to the house of one man, or that thou be priest to a tribe and to a family in Israel?

And a man's near of kin, even he who is about to burn the bones, shall carry him out of the house, when he shall say to him that is in the hinder parts of the house - Are there yet any with thee? and he shall say - No one. Then shall he say - Hush! for we must not invoke the name of Yahweh.

but palace-songs, shall become howlings, in that day, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, - Many shall be the dead bodies in every place - cast forth - with a hush!

Hush! all flesh, before Yahweh, - For he hath roused himself up out of his holy dwelling.

Now, unto the people, had Joshua given command, saying - Ye shall not shout nor let your voice be heard, neither shall there go out of your mouth, a word, - until the day when I say unto you Shout! then shall ye shout.

And the sons of Dan said unto him, Do not let thy voice be heard among us, - lest men embittered in soul fall upon you, and thou gather in thy life and the lives of thy household.

Verily my lips shall not speak perversity, nor shall, my tongue, utter deceit.

For thy spirit, replieth against GOD, and thou bringest forth - out of thy mouth - words!

For, he that desireth to love, life, and to see good days, Let him cause his tongue to cease from mischief, and lips, that they speak not deceit;

Do not trust in a friend, do not put confidence in an associate, - from her that lieth in thy bosom, keep thou the doors of thy mouth;

For I wilt not dare to speak anything save of the things which Christ hath wrought out for himself through me for the obedience of nations, - -by word and deed,

In like manner, ye wives, - submitting yourselves unto your own husbands; in order that, if any are not yielding unto the word, through their wives behaviour, they may, without the word, be won,

But, if there be none to translate, let him keep silence in assembly, and, unto himself, be speaking, and, unto God!

If, however, unto another, a revelation be made, as he is sitting, let the first be silent;

But, teaching - unto a woman, I do not permit, nor yet to have authority over a man, - but to be in quietness;

Let, a woman, in quietness, be learning in all submission;

Show me, and, I, will hold my peace, And, wherein I have erred, cause me to understand.

Lo! I am of no account, what shall I reply to thee? My hand, have I laid on my mouth:

And, in all that I have said unto thee, shalt thou take heed to thyself, - and the name of other gods, shalt thou not mention, it shall not be heard upon thy mouth.

But, fornication, and all impurity, or covetousness, let it not be named among you - even as becometh saints;

For, of the secret things which are brought to pass by them, it is, shameful, even to speak!