Bible Verses About Controlling Your Tongue

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb , sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.