37 Bible Verses about Cursing

Let no corrupt speech go out of your mouth, rather if there is any good word for edification of a need, so that it may give grace to those who hear.

Thou shall not take the name of LORD thy God in vain, for LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

also indecency, and foolish talking or jesting, things not befitting, but thankfulness instead.

If any man among you seems to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is futile.

For the land is full of adulterers. For because of swearing the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil, and their might is not right.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth the good, and the bad man out of the bad treasure of his heart brings forth the bad, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

By it we bless the God and Father, and by it we curse men, who were made according to a likeness of God. Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and curse. My brothers, these things ought not to happen this way. Does the spring pour out from the same opening the sweet and the bitter?read more.
A fig tree, my brothers, cannot make olives, or a grapevine figs. In the same way, no one spring makes water salty and sweet.

For he who wants to love life, and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips not to speak deceit.

Thou shall not take the name of LORD thy God in vain, for LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

But now ye also, put off all these things: anger, wrath, wickedness, reviling, filthy speaking out of your mouth.

Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and curse. My brothers, these things ought not to happen this way.

But above all things, my brothers, swear not. Neither by the heaven, nor the earth, nor any other oath, but let your yes be yes, and the no, no, so that ye may not fall into hypocrisy.

but according to the Holy Man, he who called you, ye yourselves also become holy in all conduct,

And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of thy God. I am LORD.

But shun profane babblings, for they will advance to greater impiety,

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a grievous word stirs up anger.

Cursed be he who does the work of LORD negligently, and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood.

Bless those who persecute you. Bless ye and do not curse.

Yea, he loved cursing, and it came to him. And he did not delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

They speak [vain] words, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

And to Adam he said, Because thou have hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shall not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake. In toil thou shall eat of it all

Their throat is an open grave. With their tongues they deceive. The poison of asps is under their lips, whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood.read more.
Destruction and misery are in their ways, and the way of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.

The mouth of a righteous man brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut off.

to be serious-minded, pure, homemakers, good, submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God may not be blasphemed. Likewise exhort the younger men to be sober-minded. Concerning all things presenting thyself a pattern of good works in the doctrine: incorruption, dignity, incorruptibility,read more.
sound speech, irreproachable, so that the man of opposition may be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

Be not led astray. Evil associations corrupt good habits.

your speech always with grace seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer each one.

So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles. And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.

Concerning all things presenting thyself a pattern of good works in the doctrine: incorruption, dignity, incorruptibility, sound speech, irreproachable, so that the man of opposition may be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who mistreat you.

Not that which enters into the mouth defiles the man, but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles the man.