17 Bible Verses about Speaking, Evil

For there are many disorderly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:

For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.

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

Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?

Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?

Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath ceased to be wise, and to do good.

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 from hell.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.

Whoever privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that hath a high look and a proud heart I will not suffer.

The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor.

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thy own mother's son.

Thou shalt not go up and down as a tale-bearer among thy people; neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor; I am the LORD.

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no tale-bearer, the strife ceaseth.

A tale-bearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.

The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

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

Wherefore, laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil-speakings,

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 from hell.

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

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

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

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

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

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