37 Bible Verses about Cursing
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Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing.
Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain: for Jehovah will not cleanse him who shall take his name in vain.
And obscenity, and silly discourse, or wit, which things concern not; but rather thankfulness.
If any among you seem to be religious, bridling not his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one vain.
For the land was filled from adulteries, for from the face of these the land mourned, the beautiful things of the desert were dried up, and their race will be evil, and their strength not right
The good man out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forward the good thing; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart, brings forward the evil thing: for out of the abundance of the heart does his month speak.
With it we praise the God and Father; and with it we curse men, those made according to the similitude of God. Out of the same month comes forth blessing and cursing. There is no need, my brethren, for these things so to be. Much less from the same aperture does a fountain bubble out sweet and bitter?read more.
The fig tree, my brethren, cannot make olives, or the vine, figs: so no fountain can make salt and sweet water.
For he wishing to love life, and to see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit:
Thou shalt not lift up the name of Jehovah thy God for evil, for Jehovah will not acquit whoever shall lift up his name for evil.
His mouth was filled with cursing and deceit and violence: under his tongue, trouble and vanity.
And now ye also put them all away; anger, wrath, badness, slander, shameful language out of your mouth.
Out of the same month comes forth blessing and cursing. There is no need, my brethren, for these things so to be.
And before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor any other oath: and let your yea be yea; and nay, nay; that ye fall not under. judgment.
But according to the holy one calling you, also should ye yourselves be holy in all turning back;
And ye shall not swear in my name for falsehood, and profane the name of thy God: I Jehovah.
And avoid profane, empty discourses: for they will proceed to more of profanation.
A soft answer will turn away wrath, and a word of pain will bring up anger.
Cursed he doing the work of Jehovah slothfully, and cursed he withholding his sword from blood.
And he will love cursing, and it shall come to him: and he delighted not in praise, and it shall be far from him.
They spake words swearing falsehood, cutting out a covenant: and judgment broke forth as the head upon the furrows of the field
And to Adam he said, Because thou didst listen to the voice of thy wife, and thou wilt eat from the tree which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat from it; cursed the earth for thy sake; in labor shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Their throat an opened tomb; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and harshness: Their feet active to pour out blood:read more.
Bruising and grievous toil in their ways: And the way of peace they knew not: The fear of God is not before their eyes.
The mouth of the just one shall germinate wisdom: and the tongue of perverseness shall be cut off.
Of sound mind chaste, remaining at home, good subordinates to their own husbands, that the word of God be not defamed. The younger men likewise beseech to be of sound mind. Concerning all things hold thyself a type of good works: in doctrine, integrity, gravity, incorruptibility,read more.
The word sound, not to be condemned; that he from the opposite may be changed, having nothing bad to say of you.
Your word always in grace, Seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer one another.
So also the tongue is a small member, and vaunts itself. Behold, how great a wood a little fire inflames (And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell.
Concerning all things hold thyself a type of good works: in doctrine, integrity, gravity, incorruptibility, The word sound, not to be condemned; that he from the opposite may be changed, having nothing bad to say of you.
Not that coming into the mouth pollutes the man; but that going forth out of the mouth, this pollutes the man.
From Thematic Bible
Cursing » General references to
The sin of their mouth the word of their lips, and they shall be taken in their pride: and from cursing and from falsehood they will recount.
His mouth was filled with cursing and deceit and violence: under his tongue, trouble and vanity.
And he will love cursing, and it shall come to him: and he delighted not in praise, and it shall be far from him.
For also many times thy heart knew that thou didst also curse others.
Cursing » Of parents
When a man, a man who shall lightly esteem his father and his mother, dying, he shall die: he lightly esteemed ha father and his mother: his blood is upon him.
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and he reviling father or mother, in death let him die:
He cursing his father and his mother, his lamp shall go out in the midst of darkness.
Cursing » Forbidden
Thou shalt not curse the king in thy consciousness, and in thy bed-chamber thou shalt not curse the rich for the bird of the heavens will bring the voice, and the possessor of wings shall announce the word.
Out of the same month comes forth blessing and cursing. There is no need, my brethren, for these things so to be.
Cursing » Examples of
And king David went to Bahurim, and behold, from thence a man will come forth from the family of the house of Saul, and his name Shimei, son of Gera: he came forth, coming forth and cursing.
Then began he to anathematize, and to swear, That I know not the man: and quickly the cock uttered a sound.
And he of the rovers will say to David, Am I a dog that thou camnest to me with rods? and he of the rovers will curse David by his gods.
Cursing » The precepts of jesus concerning
But I say to you, Love your enemies, praise them cursing you, do well to them hating you, and pray for them threatening you, and driving you out.
Cursing » Shimei curses david
And king David went to Bahurim, and behold, from thence a man will come forth from the family of the house of Saul, and his name Shimei, son of Gera: he came forth, coming forth and cursing. And he will stone David with stones, and all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty, from his right hand and from his left And thus said Shimei in his cursing, Come forth, come forth, thou man of bloods and man of read more.
Jehovah turned back upon thee Belial all the bloods of the house of Saul of whom thou didst reign in his stead; and Jehovah will give the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son; and behold thee in thine evil, for a man of bloods art thou.
Cursing » Apostolic
For as in one body we have many members, and all members have not the same action:
Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Death penalty » Cursing
When a man, a man who shall lightly esteem his father and his mother, dying, he shall die: he lightly esteemed ha father and his mother: his blood is upon him.
Topics on Cursing
Cursing God
Exodus 22:28Thou shalt not make light of God, and thou shalt not curse the chiefs of thy people.
Cursing Israel
Joshua 24:9And Balak, son of Zippor, king of Moab, will rise up and will fight against Israel, and he will send and call for Balaam son of Beor, to curse you:
Cursing The Ungodly
Genesis 49:7Cursed their anger, for it was hard; and their wrath, for it was hardened: I will divide them in Jacob, and I will disperse them in Israel
God Cursing
Genesis 3:14And Jehovah God will say to the serpent, Because thou didst this, cursed art thou above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust thou shalt eat all the days of thy life.
Ungodly Cursing
Psalm 62:4Surely they counseled to thrust down his lifting up: they will delight in falsehood: with their mouth they will praise, and in their inward parts they will curse. Silence.
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