11 Bible Verses about Evil Speaking

Laying aside therefore all malice and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speakings,

For there are many disorderly wranglers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, whom it is necessary to silence, who mislead whole families, teaching for base gain what they ought not.

to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all meekness to all men.

But if any one among you thinks he is religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his mind, that man's religion is vain.

so also the tongue is a small member and boasts of great things. Behold, how much wood a little fire kindles! And the tongue is a fire, the tongue is made a world of wickedness among our members, it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature and is set on fire by hell. For every kind of beasts, and birds, and reptiles, and fishes, is tamed and has been tamed by the human race,read more.
but the tongue can no man tame; it is a disorderly evil, full of a deadly poison. With it bless we the Lord and Father, and with it curse we men made in the likeness of God. Out of the same mouth proceeds a blessing and a curse. My brothers, these things ought not so to be.

Speak not one against one another, brothers. He that speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

their throat is an opened tomb, with their tongues they practise deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips.

Wherefore, laying aside lying let every one speak the truth to his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

Let no evil word proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for useful edification, that it may afford benefit to those that hear. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, by which you were sealed to the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, be banished from among you, with all malice.

nor indecorum and foolish talking, or jesting, things not becoming, but rather giving of thanks.