Bible Verses about

Deceitful Tongues


Psalms 120:2

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

Psalms 109:2

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Psalms 52:4

Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

Psalms 120:3

What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?

Micah 6:12

For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

1 Peter 3:10

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:

Proverbs 15:4

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

Psalms 52:2

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.

Romans 3:13

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

James 3:6

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.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Proverbs 26:28

A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

Proverbs 6:17

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Psalms 31:18

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

Psalms 10:7

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

Psalms 12:2

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

Psalms 12:3

The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

Psalms 34:13

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

Psalms 50:19

Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

Zephaniah 3:13

The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.