9 Bible Verses about Insulting Other People

Cursed is he who thinks lightly of his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be liable to the judgment. And whoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be liable to the sanhedrin; but whoever shall say, Fool! shall be liable to be thrown into the fire of hell.

A fool's vexation is known in a day, but the astute one covers shame.

And one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold! David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master, and he screamed at them.

And they who stood by him said, Do you revile God's high priest?

And one of the lawyers answered and said to Him, Master, you reproach us also when you say this.

So prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My fury, because you have borne the shame of the nations.

Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: I have lifted up My hand; surely the nations around you shall bear their shame.

Nor will I allow you to hear the shame of the nations any more, nor shall you bear the shame of the peoples any more, nor shall you cause your nations to fall any more, says the Lord Jehovah.