If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
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 a great forest ablaze.
The good man brings good things out of the good treasure of his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.
You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.
…who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.
It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.
For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,