Bible Verses about “harsh words”
The Bible contains 30 verses about harsh words across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
“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.”
“¶ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:”
“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:”
“For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”
“¶ A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.”
“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.”
“Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:”
“‹But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;›”
“‹But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.›”
“Neither give place to the devil.”
“¶ But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.”
“‹Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.›”
“‹That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.›”
“¶ ‹Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.›”
“¶ A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise [man] keepeth it in till afterwards.”
“‹For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?›”
“‹And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more› [than others]? ‹do not even the publicans so?›”
“¶ ‹Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:›”
“Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.”
“Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.”
“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.”
“But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.”
“¶ There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.”
“Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.”
“¶ A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but [he that is] slow to anger appeaseth strife.”
“Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!”
“For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:”
“Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet [water] and bitter?”
“Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.”