23 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech

In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it can boast of great achievements. A huge forest can be set on fire by a little flame.

The tongue is a fire, a world of evil. Placed among the parts of our bodies, the tongue contaminates the whole body and sets on fire the course of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.

but no one can tame the tongue. It is an uncontrollable evil filled with deadly poison.

The power of the tongue is life and death those who love to talk will eat what it produces.

Then they sent some Pharisees and some Herodians to him, intending to trap him in what he said.

Then the Pharisees went and planned how to trap Jesus in conversation.

They watched him closely in an effort to trap him in something he might say.

So they couldn't catch him before the people in what he said. Amazed at his answer, they became silent.

Anyone who guards his words protects his life; anyone who talks too much is ruined.

LORD, set a guard over my mouth; keep watch over the door to my lips.

Even before I have formed a word with my tongue, you, LORD, know it completely!

When they hand you over, don't worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say, because in that hour what you are to say will be given to you.

You children of serpents! How can you say anything good when you are evil? The mouth speaks about what overflows from the heart.

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and it is those things that make a person unclean.

Just as Moses and Elijah were leaving, Peter told Jesus, "Master, it's good that we're here! Let's set up three shelters one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." (Peter didn't know what he was saying.)

Therefore, what you have said in darkness will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in private rooms will be shouted from the housetops."

So they watched him closely and sent spies who pretended to be honest men in order to trap him in what he would say. They wanted to hand him over to the jurisdiction of the governor,

For all of us make many mistakes. If someone does not make any mistakes when he speaks, he is perfect and able to control his whole body.

A fool's mouth is his unraveling, and his lips entrap himself.

trapped by your own words, and caught by your own words,

I tell you, on Judgment Day people will give an account for every thoughtless word they have uttered,

because by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned."

The king told him, "I will judge you by your own words, you evil servant! You knew, did you, that I was a hard man, and that I withdraw what I didn't deposit and harvest what I didn't plant?