34 Bible Verses about Curbing Speech

"Hold your tongues now, and let me speak, for there is something come into my mind.

Mark well, O Job, and hear me: hold thee still until I have spoken.

If thou hast nothing, then hear me, and hold thy tongue, so shall I teach thee wisdom."

Mark me well, and be abashed, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

Be still ye that dwell in the Isle; the merchants of Sidon and such as pass over the sea have made thee plenteous.

Sit still, hold thy tongue, and get thee into some dark corner, O daughter Chaldea, for thou shalt no more be called lady of kingdoms.

Let me not be confounded, O LORD, for I have called upon thee: let the ungodly be put to confusion, and put to silence in the grave.

Let the lying lips be put to silence, which cruelly, disdainfully, and despitefully speak against the righteous.

Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

and let not thine heart speak anything rashly before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth, therefore let thy words be few.

Be still at the presence of the LORD God, for the day of the LORD is at hand: yea, the LORD hath prepared a slain offering, and called his guests thereto.

And Moses, with the priests the Levites, spake unto all Israel, saying, "Take heed and hear, Israel: this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God.

and he himself turned back from the idols at Gilgal, and caused to say thus: "I have a secret thing to tell thee, O king." And the king commanded to keep silence, and all they that stood about him went out from him.

And they answered him, "Hold thy peace, and put thine hand upon thy mouth, and come with us, and be unto us a father and a priest. Whether is it better for thee to be a priest? Unto the house of one man, or to be priest unto a tribe or a kindred in Israel?"

So their next kinfolks and the dead buriers shall take them, and carry away their bones, and say unto him that is in the innermore house, 'Is there yet any more by thee?' And he shall answer, 'They are all gone. Hold thy tongue,' shall he say. For they would not remember the name of the LORD.

In that day shall the songs of the temple be turned in to sorrow," sayeth the LORD God. "Many dead bodies shall lie in every place, and be cast forth secretly.

Let all flesh hold their peace before the LORD: for he is risen out of his holy temple.

And Joshua commanded the people, saying, "Shout not nor let your voice be heard, or any word proceed out of your mouths, until the day I bid you shout: and then shout."

And the children of Dan said unto him, "Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of all thine household too."

while my breath is in me, and as long as the wind that God hath given me is in my nostrils.

that thy mind is so puffed up against God and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

If any man long after life, and loveth to see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips, that they speak not guile:

Let no man believe his friend, nor put his confidence in a prince. Keep the door of thy mouth, from her that lieth in thy bosom:

For I dare not speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the gentiles obedient, with word and deed,

Likewise, let the wives be in subjection to their husbands, that even they which believe not the word, may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives:

But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the congregation, and let him speak to himself, and to God.

If any revelation be made to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.

I suffer not a woman to teach, neither to have authority over the man: but for to be in silence.

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and wherein I have erred, cause me to understand.

"Behold, I am too vile a person to answer thee, therefore will I lay my hand upon my mouth.

And in all things that I have said unto you, be circumspect. And make no rehearsal of the names of strange gods, neither let any man hear them out of your mouths.

So that fornication, and all uncleanness or covetousness, be not once named among you, as it becometh saints:

For it is shame even to name those things which are done of them in secret: