17 Bible Verses about Speaking, Evil

For many also are disorderly, vain talkers and infatuates, especially they of the circumcision:

For the dream came in the multitude of labor; and the voice of the foolish one in the multitude of words.

In the multitude of words transgression shall not cease: and he withholding his lips is prudent

Shall not the multitude of words be answered? and shall a man of lips be justified?

Reproving with words he shall not profit, and speeches will be of no use in them.

Their throat an opened tomb; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps under their lips:

His mouth was filled with cursing and deceit and violence: under his tongue, trouble and vanity.

The words of his mouth vanity and deceit: he ceased to be circumspect, to do good.

(And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell.

Not steadfast in his mouth; the midst of them mischiefs; their throat a grave opened; they will be smooth with their tongue,

Slandering his neighbor in secret, him will I cut off: him being lofty of eyes and broad of heart, with him I will not eat

The north wind will set free the rain, and an angry face, a hidden tongue.

For I am afraid, lest somehow, having come, I find you not such; as I will, and I find you such as ye wish not: lest somehow, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intrigues, calumnies, whisperings, inflations, derangements:

Slandering not with his tongue, not doing evil to his neighbor, lifting up no reproach against his neighbor.

Thou wilt sit, and thou wilt speak against thy brother; against the son of thy, mother thou wilt give a stumbling-block.

Thou shalt not go a slanderer among thy people; thou shalt not stand upon the blood of thy neighbor: I Jehovah.

He covering transgression seeks love; and he perverting in the word, separates a, friend.

In the ceasing of wood, fire will go out: and in not being a tale-bearer, strife will subside.

He going about tale-bearing reveals a secret: and he being faithful of spirit hides the word.

The words of the tale-bearer as dainty morsels, and they will go down to the chambers of the belly.

Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness:

For he wishing to love life, and to see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit:

Therefore setting aside all wickedness, and all artifice, and dissimulation; and envies, and all calumnies,

(And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell.

Speak not against one another, brethren. He speaking against a brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: and if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

For I am afraid, lest somehow, having come, I find you not such; as I will, and I find you such as ye wish not: lest somehow, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intrigues, calumnies, whisperings, inflations, derangements:

Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity,

A man of perverseness shall send forth strife: and a tale-bearer separates friends.

Together, all hating me, will whisper against me: against one they will purpose evil to me.

The words of a tale-bearer as dainty morsels, and they will go down to the chambers of the belly.

If any among you seem to be religious, bridling not his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one vain.

For he wishing to love life, and to see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit:

Watch thy tongue from evil; and thy lips from speaking deceit

He guarding his mouth, watched his soul: he opening wide his lips, destruction to him.

He watching his mouth and his tongue watches his soul from straits.