Bible Verses About Speaking: Evil

Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.

Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

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

An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.

Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.

Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

(A Song of degrees.) In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?

Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.

I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.

By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.