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.
“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,”
“doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;”
“bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
“doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”
“You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
“Let 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.”
“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.”
“Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.”
“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.”
“So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;”
“But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.”
“For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.”
“Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.”
“If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.”
“but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.”
“If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.”
“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;”
“If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.”
“A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”
“Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."”
“If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.”
“Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.”
“I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.”
“Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;”
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.”
“Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.”
“For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."”
“Don't befriend a hot-tempered man, and don't associate with one who harbors anger:”
“There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.”
“An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.”