26 Bible Verses about Cursing

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Luke 6:45

The good man, out of his good inner storehouse, brings forth what is good, the bad man, out of his bad one, what is bad. For a man's mouth usually speaks the things that fill his heart.

James 3:9-12

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth flow blessing and cursing! It ought not to be like this, my brothers. A fountain cannot pour from the same opening fresh and brackish water, can it?read more.
A fig tree, my brothers, cannot bear olives, or a grape-vine figs, can it? And a salt spring cannot furnish fresh water.

Colossians 3:8

But now you too must once for all put them all aside -- anger, rage, malice, and abusive, filthy talk from your lips.

James 3:10

Out of the same mouth flow blessing and cursing! It ought not to be like this, my brothers.

James 5:12

Above all, my brothers, stop swearing, either by heaven or by the earth, or by anything else. Let your "Yes" mean Yes, and your "No," No, so as to keep from falling under condemnation.

Romans 3:13-18

Their throats are just like open graves, with their tongues they have spoken treachery; the poison of asps is under their lips. Their mouths are full of bitter cursing. Their feet are swift for shedding blood,read more.
Ruin and wretchedness are on their paths, They do not know the way of peace. There is no reverence for God before their eyes."

Titus 2:5-8

to be serious, pure, home keepers, kind, and subordinate to their husbands, so as not to cause God's message to suffer reproach. Keep urging the younger men to be sensible. In everything you yourself continue to set them a worthy example of doing good; be sincere and serious in your teaching,read more.
let your message be wholesome and unobjectionable, so that our opponent may be put to shame at having nothing evil to say about us.

James 3:5-6

So the tongue, too, is a little organ but can boast of great achievements. See how a spark, ever so tiny, can set a vast forest on fire! And the tongue is a fire, and takes its place among the parts of our bodies as a world of evil; it soils the whole body and sets on fire the circle of man's nature, and itself is set on fire by hell.

Titus 2:7-8

In everything you yourself continue to set them a worthy example of doing good; be sincere and serious in your teaching, let your message be wholesome and unobjectionable, so that our opponent may be put to shame at having nothing evil to say about us.

Matthew 15:11

It is not what goes into a man's mouth that makes him foul; no, it is what comes out of a man's mouth that makes him foul."

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More verses: James 3:9

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James 3:10

Out of the same mouth flow blessing and cursing! It ought not to be like this, my brothers.

Cursing » Examples of

Cursing » The precepts of jesus concerning

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Mark 11:21

And Peter remembered about it, and said to Him, "Look, Teacher! The fig tree which you cursed has withered!"

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Hebrews 6:8

But if it continues to yield thorns and thistles, it is considered worthless and in danger of being cursed, and its final fate is burning.

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