You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and al
Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out com
His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.
For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutte
For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues pra
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets
who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.
Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.