17 Bible Verses about Speaking, Evil
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"Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips;
Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against his brother, and who 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.
For he that wants to love life and to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile.
A soft answer turns away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.
But let your word be, Yes, yes; No, no. For whatever is more than these comes from evil.
But no one can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
neither baseness, foolish talking, jesting, which are not becoming, but rather giving of thanks.
Your tongue devises evil, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold how little a fire kindles how large a forest!
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips, but the just shall come out of trouble.
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Speaking, evil » Vain talk condemned
For there are indeed many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice by the multitude of words.
In the multitude of words, sin is not lacking; but he who holds back his lips is wise.
Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified?
Should he reason with talk that is not useful, or with speeches which have no profit?
Speaking, evil » General references to
"Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips;
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue are mischief and vanity.
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So the tongue is set among our members, spotting all the body and inflaming the course of nature, and being inflamed by hell.
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.
Speaking, evil » Backbiting
Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, I will cut him off; him who has a high look and a proud heart, I will not allow.
For I fear, lest somehow coming I might not find you as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you might not wish; lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, angers, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, proud thoughts, tumults;
he does not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;
Speaking, evil » Talebearers condemned
You shall not go as a slanderer among your people; you shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am Jehovah.
He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates friends.
Where there is no wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no talebearer, the fighting ceases.
One going with slander is a revealer of secrets, but the faithful of spirit keeps the matter hidden.
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Speaking, evil » Warnings against
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and tumult and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.
For he that wants to love life and to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile.
Therefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings, and all evil speakings,
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So the tongue is set among our members, spotting all the body and inflaming the course of nature, and being inflamed by hell.
Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against his brother, and who 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.
Speaking, evil » Whispering, evil, general references to
For I fear, lest somehow coming I might not find you as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you might not wish; lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, angers, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, proud thoughts, tumults;
being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers,
A perverse man causes fighting, and a whisperer separates chief friends.
All those hating me whisper against me; they plot evil against me.
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Speaking, evil » The tongue to be restrained
If anyone thinks to be religious among you, yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is vain.
For he that wants to love life and to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile.
