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Bible Verses about “cursing

Found 18 verses (ordered by relevance) about “cursing” in the KJV version of the Bible

Ephesians 4:29
952 votes

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

James 1:26
439 votes

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain.

Ephesians 5:4
419 votes

Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

Colossians 3:8
301 votes

¶ But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Exodus 20:7
209 votes

Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Romans 12:14
199 votes

Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.

Proverbs 18:21
198 votes

¶ Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Colossians 4:6
193 votes

Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

James 3:10
162 votes

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Matthew 15:11
146 votes

‹Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.›

Luke 6:28
128 votes

‹Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.›

James 3:8
121 votes

But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

James 3:9
113 votes

Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

Matthew 15:19
80 votes

‹For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:›

Matthew 15:18
54 votes

‹But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.›

Matthew 15:20
50 votes

‹These are› [the things] ‹which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.›

Matthew 15:10
40 votes

¶ And he called the multitude, and said unto them, ‹Hear, and understand:›

Psalms 109:17
33 votes

As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.