Psalms 52:2

Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him:

Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts—with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues ar

“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do

See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”

Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to

You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.

Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the go

Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On th

For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,

there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the n

who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.

We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader

Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.

Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”

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

And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and th