[Exo 22:28 KJV] 28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
[Psa 10:7-8 KJV] 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity. 8 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.
[Psa 12:3-4 KJV] 3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, [and] the tongue that speaketh proud things: 4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips [are] our own: who [is] lord over us?
[Psa 34:13 KJV] 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
[Psa 41:5-9 KJV] 5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish? 6 And if he come to see [me], he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; [when] he goeth abroad, he telleth [it]. 7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt. 8 An evil disease, [say they], cleaveth fast unto him: and [now] that he lieth he shall rise up no more. 9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up [his] heel against me.
[Psa 52:2-4 KJV] 2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 Thou lovest evil more than good; [and] lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. 4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O [thou] deceitful tongue.
[Psa 59:12 KJV] 12 [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.
[Psa 64:2-5 KJV] 2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity: 3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, [and] bend [their bows to shoot] their arrows, [even] bitter words: 4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. 5 They encourage themselves [in] an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
[Psa 106:33 KJV] 33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
[Psa 119:23 KJV] 23 Princes also did sit [and] speak against me: [but] thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
[Psa 120:1-7 KJV] 1 [[A Song of degrees.]] In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me. 2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, [and] from a deceitful tongue. 3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? 4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. 5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, [that] I dwell in the tents of Kedar! 6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. 7 I [am for] peace: but when I speak, they [are] for war.
[Pro 4:24 KJV] 24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
[Pro 6:16-19 KJV] 16 These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 19 A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
[Pro 8:13 KJV] 13 The fear of the LORD [is] to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
[Pro 10:11, 19, 31-32 KJV] 11 The mouth of a righteous [man is] a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. ... 19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips [is] wise. ... 31 The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out. 32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked [speaketh] frowardness.
[Pro 11:11 KJV] 11 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
[Pro 12:5-6, 13, 17-19 KJV] 5 The thoughts of the righteous [are] right: [but] the counsels of the wicked [are] deceit. 6 The words of the wicked [are] to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. ... 13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of [his] lips: but the just shall come out of trouble. ... 17 [He that] speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit. 18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health. 19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue [is] but for a moment.
[Pro 13:3 KJV] 3 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: [but] he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
[Pro 14:25 KJV] 25 A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful [witness] speaketh lies.
[Pro 15:1, 4, 28 KJV] 1 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. ... 4 A wholesome tongue [is] a tree of life: but perverseness therein [is] a breach in the spirit. ... 28 The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.
[Pro 18:21 KJV] 21 Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
[Mat 12:34-37 KJV] 34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. 36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
[Rom 3:13-14 KJV] 13 Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips: 14 Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness:
[Eph 4:25, 29, 31 KJV] 25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. ... 29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. ... 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
[Col 4:6 KJV] 6 Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
[Tit 1:10-11 KJV] 10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: 11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
[Tit 3:2 KJV] 2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, [but] gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
[Jas 1:19, 26 KJV] 19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: ... 26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain.
[Jas 3:5-10 KJV] 5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! 6 And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. 7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: 8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. 10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
[Jas 4:11 KJV] 11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of [his] brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
[1Pe 3:9-10 KJV] 9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. 10 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: