38 Bible Verses about Evil Speaking

Therefore, having put off all evil and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speaking,

For there are also many insubordinate men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those from circumcision, who must be muzzled, men who subvert whole houses, teaching things that they ought not, for sake of ugly profit.

to slander no man, to be noncontentious, meek, showing all mildness to all men.

If any man among you seems to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is futile.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, from the tumult of the workers of iniquity, who have whet their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrows, even bitter words, that they may shoot in secret places at a blameless man. Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.read more.
They encourage themselves in an evil purpose. They converse of laying snares secretly. They say, Who will see them?

So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles. And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell. For every species, both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by the human species.read more.
But no man is able to tame the tongue of men, an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. By it we bless the God and Father, and by it we curse men, who were made according to a likeness of God. Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and curse. My brothers, these things ought not to happen this way.

Speak not against each other, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against law and judges law. But if thou judge law, thou are not a doer of law, but a judge.

Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals, nor greedy men, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the slanderous, nor the predatory will inherit the kingdom of God.

Their throat is an open grave. With their tongues they deceive. The poison of asps is under their lips,

Therefore having put off falsehood, let each man speak truth with his neighbor, because we are body-parts of each other.

Let no corrupt speech go out of your mouth, rather if there is any good word for edification of a need, so that it may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye are sealed for a day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling be taken away from you, with all evil.

also indecency, and foolish talking or jesting, things not befitting, but thankfulness instead.

There are six things which LORD hates, yea, seven which are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked purposes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,read more.
a FALSE witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

The fear of LORD is to hate evil. Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.

The mouth of a righteous man is a fountain of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

The thoughts of the righteous are just. The counsels of the wicked are deceit.

He who guards his mouth keeps his life. He who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

A TRUE witness delivers souls, but he who utters lies [causes] deceit.

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a grievous word stirs up anger.

A worthless man devises mischief, and in his lips there is as a scorching fire.

An evil-doer gives heed to wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts.

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

For their heart meditates oppression, and their lips talk of mischief.

The north wind brings forth rain. So does a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.

For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, contention ceases. [As] coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife. The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts.read more.
Fervent lips and a wicked heart are an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.

My enemies speak evil against me, [saying], When will he die, and his name perish? And if he comes to see [me], he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it. All who hate me whisper together against me. Against me they devise my hurt.read more.
An evil disease, [they say], clings firm to him. And now that he lays he shall rise up no more. Yea, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

Thy tongue devises wickedness, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Thou love evil more than good, and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. Thou love all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

[for] the sin of their mouth, [and] the words of their lips. Let them even be taken in their pride, and for cursing and lying which they speak.

Those who sit in the gate talk of me, and [I am] the song of the drunkards.

Let them be turned back because of their shame who say, Aha, aha.

My enemies reproach me all the day. Those who are mad against me do curse by me.

because they were rebellious against his spirit, and he spoke ill-advisedly with his lips.

Rulers also sat and talked against me, [but] thy servant meditated on thy statutes.

In my distress I cried to LORD, and he answered me. Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. What shall be given to thee, and what shall be done more to thee, thou deceitful tongue?read more.
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar! My soul has long had her dwelling with him who hates peace. I am [for] peace, but when I speak, they are for war.

They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent. Adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.