38 Bible Verses about Evil Speaking

Therefore setting aside all wickedness, and all artifice, and dissimulation; and envies, and all calumnies,

For many also are disorderly, vain talkers and infatuates, especially they of the circumcision: Who must be restrained, who subvert whole houses, teaching what they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain.

To slander none, to be without fighting, equitable, showing all meekness to all men.

If any among you seem to be religious, bridling not his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one vain.

His mouth was filled with cursing and deceit and violence: under his tongue, trouble and vanity.

Thou wilt cover me from the consultation of evil ones; from the crowd of the workers of vanity: Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, they bent their arrows a bitter word: To shoot down the blameless one in secret things: suddenly they will shoot, and they will not be afraid.read more.
They will strengthen to themselves an evil word: they will recount to hide snares; they said, Who shall see them

So also the tongue is a small member, and vaunts itself. Behold, how great a wood a little fire inflames (And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell. For every nature of beasts, and also of birds, of creeping things, and also of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by the nature of man:read more.
And the tongue none of men can tame; an ungovernable evil, full of deadly poison. With it we praise the God and Father; and with it we curse men, those made according to the similitude of God. Out of the same month comes forth blessing and cursing. There is no need, my brethren, for these things so to be.

Speak not against one another, brethren. He speaking against a brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: and if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Or know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be ye not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, Nor thieves; nor covetous, nor intoxicated, nor railers, nor rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Their throat an opened tomb; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps under their lips:

Wherefore falsehood ye having put away, speak the truth each with his neighbor: for ye are members one of another.

Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing. And grieve ye not the Holy Spirit of God in which ye were sealed to the day of redemption. Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness:

And obscenity, and silly discourse, or wit, which things concern not; but rather thankfulness.

These six Jehovah hated, and seven an abomination of his soul: Eyes being lifted up; a tongue of falsehood, and hands shedding innocent blood, A heart fabricating purposes of iniquity; feet being quick to run to evil,read more.
A witness of falsehood, breathing out lies, and sending strife between brethren.

The fear of Jehovah hates evil: pride and haughtiness, and the evil way, and the mouth of perverseness I hated.

A fountain of life the mouth of the just one: and violence shall cover the mouth of the unjust

By the blessing of the upright the city shall be exalted: and by the mouth of the unjust it shall be overthrown.

The purposes of the just are judgment: the guidance of the unjust, deceit

He guarding his mouth, watched his soul: he opening wide his lips, destruction to him.

A witness of truth delivers souls: and deceit will breathe out lies.

A soft answer will turn away wrath, and a word of pain will bring up anger.

A man of Belial dug up evil, and upon his lips, as a burning fire.

He doing evil attends upon, lips of vanity; he lying feeds upon a tongue of mischief

The words of the tale-bearer as dainty morsels, and they will go down to the chambers of the belly.

Good the poor one going in his integrity above the perverse of lips, and he foolish.

For their heart will meditate destruction, and their lips will speak labor.

The north wind will set free the rain, and an angry face, a hidden tongue.

In the ceasing of wood, fire will go out: and in not being a tale-bearer, strife will subside. As charcoal to burning coals and woods to fire, and a man of strifes to kindle strife. The words of a tale-bearer as dainty morsels, and they will go down to the chambers of the belly.read more.
Silver dross covering over a pot-sherd, burning lips and an evil heart.

Mine enemies will say evil to me: When shall he die, and his name perish? And if he came to see, he will speak vanity: his heart will gather vanity to him; he will go forth without; he will speak. Together, all hating me, will whisper against me: against one they will purpose evil to me.read more.
A word of Belial will press upon him: and when he lay down, he will not add to rise up. Also the man of my peace whom I trusted in him, eating my bread, magnified the heel against me.

Thy tongue will purpose mischief as a razor being sharpened, working deceit. Thou lovedst evil above good; falsehood more than speaking justice. Silence. Thou lovedst all words of destruction, a tongue of deceit

The sin of their mouth the word of their lips, and they shall be taken in their pride: and from cursing and from falsehood they will recount.

They sitting in the gate will speak against me, and I was but the music of stringed instruments, of strong drink

They shall be turned back for a reward of their shame, saying, Aha! Aha

All the day mine enemies reproached me, they praising me aware against me.

For they embittered his spirit, and he talked idly with his lips.

Also the chiefs sat, they spake against me: thy servant will meditate in thy laws.

Song of ascensions. I called to Jehovah in straits to me, and he will answer me. O Jehovah, deliver my soul from lips of falsehood, from a tongue of deceit. What shall be given to thee? and what shall be added to thee, thou tongue of deceit?read more.
Arrows of the strong one sharpened with burning coals of broom. Wo! to me that I sojourned in Mesech; I dwelt with the tents of Ke dar. My soul dwelt much upon it with Him hating peace. I peace: and when I shall speak, they for war.

They sharpened their tongue as a serpent; the poison of asps under their lips. Silence,