7 Bible Verses about Speaking, Evil

For there are many undisciplined people, who deceive themselves with their empty talk, especially those of the party of circumcision.

Their throats are like open graves, They use their tongues to deceive; The venom of asps is behind their lips,

And the tongue is a fire, a world of wrong the tongue proves in our bodies, soiling the whole body and setting fire to the whole round of nature, and set on fire itself by hell.

for I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. I am afraid that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, bad feeling, rivalry, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder,

You must give up all bitterness, rage, anger, and loud, abusive talk, and all spite.

For "Let him who would enjoy life And see happy days, Keep his tongue from evil, And his lips from uttering deceit.

Free yourselves, therefore, from all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of any kind,

And the tongue is a fire, a world of wrong the tongue proves in our bodies, soiling the whole body and setting fire to the whole round of nature, and set on fire itself by hell.

Do not talk against one another, brothers. Whoever talks against a brother or condemns his brother talks against the Law, and condemns the Law. But if you condemn the Law you are not an observer of the Law but its judge.

for I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. I am afraid that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, bad feeling, rivalry, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder,

They revel in every kind of wrongdoing, wickedness, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and ill-nature.

If anyone thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives himself, his religious observances are of no account.

For "Let him who would enjoy life And see happy days, Keep his tongue from evil, And his lips from uttering deceit.