12 Bible Verses about Deceitful Tongues
Most Relevant Verses
Thou didst give thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frames deceit.
What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
Redeem me, and save me from the hand of strange sons, whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful matters against those that are meek in the land.
They only consult to cast him down from his greatness; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse in their inward parts. Selah.
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit; he has left off to be wise and to do good.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Their tongue is as a sharp arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth but in heart he lays in wait.
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips,
With which their rich men are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Bible Theasaurus
- Deceitful (88 instances)
- Tongues (76 instances)