Proverbs 18:8

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

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

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.”

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

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

The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.

I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

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

he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

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

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.

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

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

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

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

They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

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.

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

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”

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.

Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.

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

for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

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

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

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

A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious;

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.

They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.

“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

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

You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.

“ ‘ “Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head,” says the Lord Yahweh: “and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.

and has not eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife, hasn’t come near a woman in her impurity,

or who does not do any of those things, but even has eaten at the mountain shrines, and defiled his neighbor’s wife,

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

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

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

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

accuses her of shameful things, gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity;”

When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand.

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

Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.