Proverbs 6:12
An ungodly person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.
Proverbs 4:24
Put away from you a deceitful mouth. Get rid of devious speech.
1 Samuel 17:28
Eliab, David's oldest brother, heard David talking to the men. Then Eliab became angry with David. Why did you come here, he asked him, and with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know how overconfident and headstrong you are. You came here just to see the battle.
Psalm 10:3
The wicked person boasts about his selfish desires. He blesses the covetous, which Jehovah abhors.
Psalm 10:7
His mouth is full of curses, deception, and oppression. Trouble and wrongdoing are on the tip of his tongue.
Psalm 36:3
The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit and he ceased to be wise and do good.
Psalm 52:2-4
Your tongue makes up wickedness. It is like a sharp razor, you master of deceit.
Psalm 59:7
See what pours out of their mouths, swords from their lips! They think: Who will hear us?
Psalm 73:8-9
They ridicule. They speak maliciously. They speak arrogantly about oppression.
Proverbs 2:12
It will deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things.
Proverbs 6:14
Fraud is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.
Proverbs 8:13
Respect for Jehovah means to hate evil. I hate: pride, and arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
Proverbs 11:6
Righteousness will deliver the upright. Greed will capture the unfaithful.
Proverbs 16:27
An ungodly man digs up evil. It lies on his lips like a burning fire.
Proverbs 17:4
The evildoer pays attention to false lips. A liar listens attentively to a wicked tongue.
Jeremiah 24:2
One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and the other basket had very bad figs that could not be eaten because they were rotten.
Jeremiah 24:8-10
Like the bad figs that cannot be eaten because they are rotten, says Jehovah, so I will abandon Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and the ones who dwell in the land of Egypt.
Matthew 12:34
You offspring of vipers. How can you who are evil speak good things? Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Acts 20:30
Such men will arise from among you speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after them.
1 Timothy 5:13
They also learn to be idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but gossipers and busybodies, speaking things that they should not.
Titus 1:10-11
There are many unruly (rebellious) men, vain talkers, and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision.
James 1:21
Therefore get rid of all filthiness and wickedness. Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save you.
James 3:6
The tongue is like fire, the place of iniquity among our members. It defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of our life. It is set ablaze like the ever-burning fires in the Valley of Hinnom (Greek: Gehenna: symbolic of total destruction).