Bible Verses about “verbal abuse”
The Bible contains 30 verses about verbal abuse across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“¶ Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,”
“Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;”
“Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.”
“Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;”
“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
“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.”
“¶ Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.”
“The LORD [is] nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
“¶ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:”
“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.”
“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”
“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:”
“And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.”
“But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.”
“And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”
“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.”
“¶ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.”
“¶ A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.”
“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”
“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.”
“Husbands, love [your] wives, and be not bitter against them.”
“‹But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.›”
“A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;”
“¶ Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.”
“Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.”
“‹For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.›”
“¶ Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:”
“¶ There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.”
“¶ An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.”