37 Bible Verses about Cursing

No foul language is to come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear.

Do not misuse the name of the Lord your God, because the Lord will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses His name.

Coarse and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks.

If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, then his religion is useless and he deceives himself.

For the land is full of adulterers;
the land mourns because of the curse,
and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up.
Their way of life has become evil,
and their power is not rightly used

A good man produces good out of the good storeroom of his heart. An evil man produces evil out of the evil storeroom, for his mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

We praise our Lord and Father with it, and we curse men who are made in God’s likeness with it. Praising and cursing come out of the same mouth. My brothers, these things should not be this way. Does a spring pour out sweet and bitter water from the same opening? read more.
Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a saltwater spring yield fresh water.

For the one who wants to love life
and to see good days
must keep his tongue from evil
and his lips from speaking deceit,

Do not misuse the name of the Lord your God, because the Lord will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses His name.

Cursing, deceit, and violence fill his mouth;
trouble and malice are under his tongue.

But now you must also put away all the following: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.

Praising and cursing come out of the same mouth. My brothers, these things should not be this way.

Now above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath. Your “yes” must be “yes,” and your “no” must be “no,” so that you won’t fall under judgment.

But as the One who called you is holy, you also are to be holy in all your conduct;

You must not swear falsely by My name, profaning the name of your God; I am Yahweh.

But avoid irreverent, empty speech, for this will produce an even greater measure of godlessness.

A gentle answer turns away anger,
but a harsh word stirs up wrath.

The one who does
the Lord’s business deceitfully is cursed,
and the one who withholds
his sword from bloodshed is cursed.

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.

He loved cursing—let it fall on him;
he took no delight in blessing—let it be far from him.

They speak mere words,
taking false oaths while making covenants.
So lawsuits break out
like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.

Their throat is an open grave;
they deceive with their tongues.
Vipers’ venom is under their lips.
Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Their feet are swift to shed blood;
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ruin and wretchedness are in their paths,
and the path of peace they have not known.
There is no fear of God before their eyes.

The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom,
but a perverse tongue will be cut out.

to be self-controlled, pure, homemakers, kind, and submissive to their husbands, so that God’s message will not be slandered. In the same way, encourage the young men to be self-controlled in everything. Make yourself an example of good works with integrity and dignity in your teaching. read more.
Your message is to be sound beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

Your speech should always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person.

So too, though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts great things. Consider how large a forest a small fire ignites. And the tongue is a fire. The tongue, a world of unrighteousness, is placed among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the whole body, sets the course of life on fire, and is set on fire by hell.

in everything. Make yourself an example of good works with integrity and dignity in your teaching. Your message is to be sound beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

It’s not what goes into the mouth that defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.”