23 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech

So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!

And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.

but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk.

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words.

lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say.

And they were not able in the presence of the people to catch him in what he said, but marveling at his answer they became silent.

Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!

Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.

When they deliver you over, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour.

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.

And as the men were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah"--not knowing what he said.

Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.

So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.

A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth,

I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,

for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."

He said to him, 'I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?