57 Bible Verses about Speech, Negative Aspects Of

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Matthew 12:33-35

Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree rotten, and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known by its fruit. O generation of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the month speaks. The good man, out of the good treasure of the heart, casts forth good things: and the evil man, out of the evil treasure, casts forth evil things.

Proverbs 2:12-15

To deliver thee from the evil way, from the man speaking deceit; Those forsaking the paths of straightness to go in the ways of darkness; Those rejoicing to do evil will exult in the deceit of evil;read more.
Whose paths are perverted, and in their tracks are bent aside:

Proverbs 24:1-2

Thou shalt not envy against men of evil, thou shalt not desire to be with them. For their heart will meditate destruction, and their lips will speak labor.

Matthew 15:10-11

And having called the crowd, he said to them, Hear ye, and understand. Not that coming into the mouth pollutes the man; but that going forth out of the mouth, this pollutes the man.

Mark 7:14-15

And having called all the crowd, he said to them, Hear me, all ye, and do ye understand: There is nothing from without a man, entering into him, which can defile him: but things coming out from him, these are the things polluting the man.

Luke 6:43-45

For it is not a good tree making decayed fruit; neither a decayed tree making good fruit. For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns they gather not figs, nor of the bramble do they harvest the grape. The good man out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forward the good thing; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart, brings forward the evil thing: for out of the abundance of the heart does his month speak.

Micah 6:12-13

For her rich ones were full of violence, and her inhabitants spake falsehood, and their tongue of deceit in their mouth. And also I made sick, striking thee, making desolate for thy sins.

Isaiah 59:1-4

Behold, the hand of Jehovah was not shortened from saving, and his ear heavy from hearing: But your iniquities were separating between you and between your God, and your sins caused to hide;the face from you from hearing. For your hands were polluted with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips spake falsehood, your tongue will mutter evil.read more.
None called upon justice, and none judged in truth: trusting in vanity and speaking evil, they conceived labor and brought forth vanity.

Romans 1:29-32

Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity, Whisperers, slanderers, odious to God, abusers of power, proud, tumultuous, inventors of injuries, disobedient to parents, Destitute of understanding, unsteady, devoid of natural affection, implacable, merciless:read more.
Who knowing the justice of God, that they doing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also approve those doing.

2 Timothy 3:1-5

And this know, that in the last days difficult times shall interpose. For men shall be self-lovers, lovers of money, boastful, proud, slandering, disobedient to parents, unthankful, wicked, Devoid of natural affection, not observing treaties, accusers, ungoverned, wild, not loving the good,read more.
Traitors, rash, haughty, devoted to pleasure more than loving God; Having a form of devotion, and having denied its power: and these renounce.

Proverbs 6:16-19

These six Jehovah hated, and seven an abomination of his soul: Eyes being lifted up; a tongue of falsehood, and hands shedding innocent blood, A heart fabricating purposes of iniquity; feet being quick to run to evil,read more.
A witness of falsehood, breathing out lies, and sending strife between brethren.

Deuteronomy 5:11

Thou shalt not lift up the name of Jehovah thy God for evil, for Jehovah will not acquit whoever shall lift up his name for evil.

Exodus 22:28

Thou shalt not make light of God, and thou shalt not curse the chiefs of thy people.

Psalm 139:19-20

Surely thou wilt kill the unjust one, O God: and ye men of bloods, depart from me. For they will say to thee for mischief; thine enemies were lifted up for vanity.

Psalm 36:3

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

Psalm 52:1-4

To the overseer instruction to David: In the coming of Doeg the Edomite to Saul, and he will say to him, David came to the house of Ahimelech. Why wilt thou boast in evil, thou strong one? the mercy of God is all the day. Thy tongue will purpose mischief as a razor being sharpened, working deceit. Thou lovedst evil above good; falsehood more than speaking justice. Silence.read more.
Thou lovedst all words of destruction, a tongue of deceit

Psalm 62:4

Surely they counseled to thrust down his lifting up: they will delight in falsehood: with their mouth they will praise, and in their inward parts they will curse. Silence.

Proverbs 17:20

The perverse of heart shall not find good: and he turning about with his tongue shall fall into evil.

Psalm 94:4

They will utter, they will speak impudently; all they working iniquity will boast themselves.

Psalm 10:2-6

In the pride of the unjust he will burn the poor: they shall be taken in the devices that they purposed. For the unjust boasted upon the desire of his soul, and he blessed him plundering, despising Jehovah. The unjust according to the height of his anger, will not seek: God is not in all his thoughts.read more.
His ways will be in pain in all time; thy judgments high from before him: all his enemies he will puff at them. Saying in his heart, I shall not be moved: to generation and generation for not in evil.

Psalm 12:3-4

Jehovah will cut off all smooth lips, and the tongue speaking great things: Who said, By our tongues we shall prevail; our lips are with us: who is Lord over us?

Isaiah 10:12-14

And it was when the Lord will complete all his work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will review upon the fruit of the great heart of the king of Assur and upon the glory of his eyes lifted up. For he said, By strength of my hand I did, and by my wisdom, for I was discreet: and I will remove the bounds of the people, and their things prepared I plundered, and I will bring down as a strong one the inhabitants. And my hand will find as a nest for the strength of the peoples: and as he gathering eggs left, I gathered all the land; and there was not moving the wing, and opening wide the mouth, and peeping.

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4

Let none deceive you in any manner: for, except an apostasy come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who being opposed and lifted up above all called God, or which is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

James 4:13-16

Come on now, ye saying, To day or to morrow let us go to this city, and do there one year, and let us trade, and derive profit: (Which know not that of the morrow. For what your life? For it is a steam, appearing for a little, and then invisible.) For you should say, If the Lord will, and we live, and should do this, or that.read more.
And now ye boast in your arrogance: all such boasting is evil.

2 Peter 2:17-18

These are fountains wanting water, clouds impelled by a hurricane; for whom the obscurity of darkness has been kept forever. For speaking excessive things of vanity, they decoy with the eager desires of the flesh, for licentiousness, them having truly escaped from those turned back in error.

Proverbs 11:12

He wanting heart despised for his neighbor: and a man of understanding will be silent.

1 Samuel 17:41-44

And he of the rovers going, went and drew near to David; and the man lifting up the shield before him. And he of the rovers will look and will see David, and he will despise him, for he was a boy, and red, with a fair aspect. And he of the rovers will say to David, Am I a dog that thou camnest to me with rods? and he of the rovers will curse David by his gods.read more.
And he of the rovers will say to David, Come to me and I will give thy flesh to the birds of the heavens and to the cattle of the field.

2 Kings 2:23-24

And he will go up from thence to the house of God: and he going up in the way, and little boys will come forth from the city, and will scoff at him, and say to him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he will turn behind him and see them, and he will curse them in the name of Jehovah. And, two she-bears will come forth from the forest and will rend of them forty and two children.

Nehemiah 2:19

And Sanballat the Horonite will hear, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they will mock to us and despise us, and say, What this word that ye do? are ye bearing rule against the king?

Proverbs 9:7

He instructing him mocking received to himself dishonor: and he reproving to the unjust one, his blemish.

Lamentations 2:15-16

All passing by the way clapped their hands at thee; they hissed, and they will nod their head at the daughter of Jerusalem: This the city, they will say; the complete splendor of joy to all the earth. All thine enemies opened wide their mouth upon thee: they hissed and they will gnash the teeth: they said, We swallowed down: surely this the day we longed for; we found; we saw.

Matthew 27:39-44

And they coming near, blasphemed him, shaking their heads, And saying, He loosing the temple, and building in three days, save thyself: if thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross. And likewise also the chief priests mocking, with the scribes and elders, said,read more.
Others he saved; himself he cannot save. If he is King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him: He trusted upon God; let him now deliver him, if he desires him: for he said, That I am the Son of God. And the robbers crucified with him, reproached him with the same.

Mark 15:29-32

And they going by blasphemed him, shaking their heads, and saying, Ali, thou loosing the temple, and building in three days, Save thyself, and come down from the cross. And likewise also the chief priests, mocking to one another with the scribes, said, He saved others; himself he cannot save.read more.
Let Christ, King of Israel, come down from the cross, that we might see and believe. And they crucified with him reproached him.

Luke 23:35-39

And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also who with them were deriding, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he is Christ, the chosen of God. And the soldiers also mocked him, approaching, and bringing him vinegar. And saying, If thou art king of the Jews, save thyself.read more.
And there was also an inscription written upon him, in letters Greek, Roman, and Hebrew; THIS IS KING OF THE JEWS. And one of the evil doers hanged, blasphemed him, saying, If thou art Christ, save thyself and us.

John 9:28-29

Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples. We know that God has spoken to Moses; but this, we know not whence he is.

1 Samuel 17:28

And Eliab his brother the great, will hear in his speaking to the men, and Eliab's anger will kindle against David, and he will say, Why this camest thou down? and upon whom didst thou cast those few sheep in the desert? I knew thy pride and the evil of thy heart, for in order to see the battle thou camest down.

Acts 11:2-3

And when Peter went up to Jerusalem, they of the circumcision discussed with him, Saying, That thou camest in to men having uncircumcision, and didst eat With them.

Philippians 2:14-15

Do ye all things without murmurings and discussions: That ye be complete and pure, children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world;

Leviticus 19:16

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

Proverbs 10:18

He covering hatred with lips of falsehood, and he bringing forth slander, is foolish.

James 4:11

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.

2 Samuel 16:5-8

And king David went to Bahurim, and behold, from thence a man will come forth from the family of the house of Saul, and his name Shimei, son of Gera: he came forth, coming forth and cursing. And he will stone David with stones, and all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty, from his right hand and from his left And thus said Shimei in his cursing, Come forth, come forth, thou man of bloods and man ofread more.
Jehovah turned back upon thee Belial all the bloods of the house of Saul of whom thou didst reign in his stead; and Jehovah will give the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son; and behold thee in thine evil, for a man of bloods art thou.

James 3:9-10

With it we praise the God and Father; and with it we curse men, those made according to the similitude of God. Out of the same month comes forth blessing and cursing. There is no need, my brethren, for these things so to be.

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