17 Bible Verses about Speaking, Evil

For there are many rebellious [people], idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

For a dream comes with many cares, and the voice of a fool with many words.

In many words, transgression is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is prudent.

"Should an abundance of words go unanswered, or {a man full of talk} be vindicated?

Should he argue in talk [that] is not profitable or [in] words with which he cannot do good?

Their throat [is] an opened grave; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps [is] under their lips,

His mouth is filled with cursing, with deceits and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and evil.

The words of his mouth [are] wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to have insight [and] to do good.

And the tongue [is] a fire! The world of unrighteousness, the tongue, is set among our members, defiling the whole body and setting on fire {the course of human existence}, being set on fire by hell.

For there is not [anything] reliable in his mouth; their inner part [is] destruction. Their throat is an open grave; [with] their tongue they speak deceit.

One who slanders his neighbor in secret, him I will destroy. [One] haughty of eyes and {arrogant} of heart, him I will not endure.

The wind of the north produces rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry faces.

For I am afraid lest somehow [when I] arrive, I will not find you as I want, and I may be found by you as you do not want. [I am afraid] lest somehow [there will be] strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, pride, disorder.

He does not slander with his tongue. He does not harm his friend, nor {bring up} a disgrace against his neighbor.

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

You shall not go [about with] slander among your people; {you shall not endanger your neighbor's life}; I [am] Yahweh.

He who forgives an affront fosters love, but he who waits on a matter will alienate a friend.

For lack of wood, a fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling will cease.

A gossip walks [about] telling a secret, but the trustworthy in spirit keeps [the] matter.

The words of a whisper [are] like delicious morsels, and they themselves go down [to] inner parts of the body.

All bitterness, and rage, and wrath, and clamor, and abusive speech, must be removed from you, together with all wickedness.

For "The one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and [his] lips must not speak deceit.

Therefore, ridding yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,

And the tongue [is] a fire! The world of unrighteousness, the tongue, is set among our members, defiling the whole body and setting on fire {the course of human existence}, being set on fire by hell.

Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. The one who speaks evil of a brother or 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 [of the law].

For I am afraid lest somehow [when I] arrive, I will not find you as I want, and I may be found by you as you do not want. [I am afraid] lest somehow [there will be] strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, pride, disorder.

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence. [They are] gossipers,

A person of perversity will spread dissent, and he who whispers separates a close friend.

All who hate me speak together against me. Against me they assume the {worst} for me:

The words of a whisperer [are] like delicious morsels, and they go down to the inner parts of the body.

If anyone thinks he is religious, [although he] does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion [is] worthless.

For "The one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and [his] lips must not speak deceit.

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

He who keeps his mouth guards his life; he who opens his lips, ruin [belongs] to him.

He who guards his mouth and his tongue, he guards his life from danger.