Proverbs 6:12
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12 A scoundrel and a villain
goes around with crooked speech,(A)
Matthew 12:34
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34 You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.(A)
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Proverbs 16:27
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27 Scoundrels concoct evil,
and their speech is like a scorching fire.(A)
Proverbs 4:24
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24 Put away from you crooked speech,
and put devious talk far from you.(A)
1 Timothy 5:13
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13 Besides that, they learn to be idle, gadding about from house to house, and they are not merely idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not say.(A)
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Titus 1:10-11
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10 There are also many rebellious people, idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision;(A) 11 they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what it is not right to teach.(B)
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Acts 20:30
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30 Some even from your own group will come distorting the truth in order to entice the disciples to follow them.
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Proverbs 17:4
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4 An evildoer listens to wicked lips,
and a liar gives heed to a mischievous tongue.
Proverbs 8:13
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13 The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil.
Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
and perverted speech I hate.(A)
Psalm 59:7
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7 There they are, bellowing with their mouths,
with sharp words[a] on their lips,
for “Who,” they think,[b] “will hear us?”(A)
Psalm 52:2-4
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2 you are plotting destruction.
Your tongue is like a sharp razor,
you worker of treachery.(A)
3 You love evil more than good
and lying more than speaking the truth. Selah(B)
4 You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.(C)
James 3:6
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6 And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.[a](A)
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- 3.6 Gk Gehenna
Proverbs 11:6
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6 The righteousness of the upright saves them,
but the treacherous are taken captive by their schemes.(A)
Proverbs 6:14
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14 with perverted mind devising evil,
continually sowing discord;(A)
Proverbs 2:12
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12 It will save you from the way of evil,
from those who speak perversely,
Psalm 73:8-9
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8 They scoff and speak with malice;
loftily they threaten oppression.(A)
9 They set their mouths against heaven,
and their tongues range over the earth.
Psalm 36:3
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3 The words of their mouths are mischief and deceit;
they have ceased to act wisely and do good.(A)
Psalm 10:7
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7 Their mouths are filled with cursing and deceit and oppression;
under their tongues are mischief and iniquity.(A)
Psalm 10:3
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3 For the wicked boast of the desires of their heart;
those greedy for gain curse and renounce the Lord.(A)
James 1:21
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21 Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power to save your souls.(A)
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Jeremiah 24:8-10
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8 But thus says the Lord: Like the bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who live in the land of Egypt.(A) 9 I will make them a horror, an evil thing, to all the kingdoms of the earth—a disgrace, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.(B) 10 And I will send sword, famine, and pestilence upon them until they are utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their ancestors.(C)
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Jeremiah 24:2
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2 One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.(A)
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1 Samuel 17:28
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28 His eldest brother Eliab heard him talking to the men, and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David. He said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down just to see the battle.”(A)
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