34 Bible Verses about Curbing Speech
Most Relevant Verses
Be ye silent, O inhabitants of the isle; the merchants of Zidon passing over the sea filled thee.
Sit thou silently and go into darkness, thou daughter of the Chaldeans for thou shalt no more be added for them to call thee The mistress of kingdoms
O Jehovah, I shall not be ashamed, for I called upon thee: the unjust shall be ashamed and they shall be destroyed to hades.
The lips of falsehood shall be mute; speaking boldly in pride and contempt.
Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:
Thou shalt not hasten with thy mouth, and thy heart shall not be quick to bring forth a word to the face of God: for God is in the heavens, and thou upon the earth: for this thy words shall be few.
Be silent from the face of the Lord Jehovah: for the day of Jehovah is near, for Jehovah prepared a swam he consecrated his called ones.
And Moses will speak, and the priests, the Levites, to all Israel, saying, Be silent and hear, Israel; this day thou wert for a people to Jehovah thy God.
And he turned back from the carved images which were at Gilgal, and he will say, A hidden word to me for thee, O king: and he will say, Silence! And all standing by him will go forth from him.
And they will say to him, Be silent; put thy hand upon thy mouth and go with us, and be to us for father and for priest: is it good for thee to be priest to the house of one man, or for thee to be priest to a tribe and to a family in Israel?
And his friend lifted him up, and he burning him, and bringing forth the bones out of the house, and he said to him by the sides of the house: Yet with thee? And he said, No more. And he said, Silence: for not to make mention of the name of Jehovah.
The songs of the temple wailed in that day, says the Lord Jehovah; many a corpse in every place being cast forth: silence.
Be silent, all flesh, from the face of Jehovah: for he was raised from the habitation of his holiness.
And Joshua commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, and ye shall not cause your voice to be heard, and a word shall not go forth out of your mouth till the day I said to you, Shout, and shout ye.
And the sons of Dan will say to him, Thy voice shall not be heard with us lest men bitter of soul shall strike upon you, and thy soul was taken away, and the soul of thy house.
That thou wilt turn thy spirit against God, and thou broughtest words from thy mouth?
For he wishing to love life, and to see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit:
Ye shall not trust in a companion, ye shall not confide in a friend: watch the doors of thy mouth from her lying in thy bosom.
For I shall dare to speak nothing that Christ has not brought about by me, for the obedience of the nations, by word and by work,
Likewise, wives being subject to their own husbands; that also, if any believe not the word, by the turning back of wives might be gained without the word;
And if there be no interpreter, let him be silent in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
And I trust not the woman to teach, neither to exercise authority over the man, but to be in freedom from care.
each ye me, and I will be silent: and what I erred in, cause me to understand.
Behold, I was vile; what shall I turn back to thee? I put my hand to my mouth.
And in all which I said to you ye shall watch; and ye shall not call to mind the name of other gods; it shall not be heard above thy mouth.
And fornication, and all uncleanness, or overreaching, let it not be named with you, as becomes the holy;
