17 Bible Verses about Speaking, Evil

For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision:

For a dream comes through much business; and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.

In the multitude of words there lacks not sin: but he that refrains 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 unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?

Their throat is an open sepulcher; 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 is mischief and vanity.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: he that has a haughty look and a proud heart will I not endure.

The north wind brings forth rain: so does a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found unto you such as you desire not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, conceit, tumults:

He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor.

You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

You shall not go up and down as a talebearer among your people: neither shall you take a stand against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.

He that covers over a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter separates close friends.

Where no wood is, there the fire goes out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceases.

A talebearer reveals secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit conceals the matter.

The words of a talebearer are like tasty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the body.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

Therefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking,

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaks evil of his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law, and judges the law: but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found unto you such as you desire not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, conceit, tumults:

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

A perverse man sows strife: and a whisperer separates best friends.

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

The words of a talebearer are tasty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the body.

If any man among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

Whosoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.