Top 13 Bible Verses About Talking Too Much


I know that I probably talk too much at times, so I will take these to heart, but I hope you will too in reading the top 13 Bible verses about talking too much.

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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.
- James 3:5-6
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Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
- Proverbs 29:20
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In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
- Proverbs 14:23
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There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing, 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.
- Matthew 12:36-37
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Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
- Job 16:3
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Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
- Ecclesiastes 5:2
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Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
- Proverbs 17:28
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Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!
- Psalm 141:3
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Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
- Proverbs 13:3
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Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
- James 1:19-20
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When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.
- Proverbs 10:19
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Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.
- Matthew 5:37
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A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.
- Proverbs 18:2
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