Bible Verses About Verbal Abuse

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

15 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

15 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.