Ecclesiastes 10:11

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.

A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

“For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they will bite you,” says Yahweh.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecuted him:

Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.

Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.

Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter, so five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell down slain.

(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.

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

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the earth. This year you will die, because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.’ ”

As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?

and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast, saying to those who dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.

The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.