Bible Verses about โhateful wordsโ
The Bible contains 39 verses about hateful words across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โAnd be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.โ
โLet no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.โ
โLet all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.โ
โIf a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?โ
โLet your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.โ
โThere is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.โ
โIf your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.โ
โfor they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.โ
โThey have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.โ
โIn return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.โ
โThey have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.โ
โLet his days be few. Let another take his office.โ
โSet a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand.โ
โWhen he is judged, let him come forth guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.โ
โYes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight in blessing, and it was far from him.โ
โThey may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice.โ
โI will give great thanks to Yahweh with my mouth. Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.โ
โamong whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.โ
โGod of my praise, don't remain silent,โ
โLet his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.โ
โLet his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.โ
โLet the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.โ
โLet there be none to extend kindness to him, neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.โ
โLet his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.โ
โLet the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out.โ
โLet them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;โ
โbecause he didn't remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.โ
โHe clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.โ
โLet it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him.โ
โThis is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.โ
โBut deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name's sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;โ
โfor I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.โ
โI fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.โ
โMy knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.โ
โI have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.โ
โHelp me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;โ
โthat they may know that this is your hand; that you, Yahweh, have done it.โ
โLet my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.โ
โFor he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul. A Psalm by David.โ
