Bible Verses About Being Mean
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for being mean, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,623 votes, led by Ephesians 4:32. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Being Mean
Ephesians 4:32427 votes
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Proverbs 15:1380 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Colossians 3:13209 votes
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15144 votes
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
1 Peter 2:1-25126 votes
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Colossians 3:17103 votes
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Philippians 4:692 votes
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Proverbs 13:2079 votes
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Psalms 37:1-275 votes
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
Romans 3:2372 votes
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Proverbs 3:7-859 votes
Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
Romans 8:859 votes
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Proverbs 15:458 votes
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Galatians 6:9-1058 votes
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Romans 8:1346 votes
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Ephesians 5:2036 votes
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
1 John 2:1-2936 votes
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
Matthew 24:1-5135 votes
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
2 Peter 3:1532 votes
And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
John 3:1931 votes
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Romans 8:731 votes
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
John 3:1630 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Psalms 3:529 votes
I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me.
Romans 1:1827 votes
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
1 Timothy 2:1-1526 votes
I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
What does the Bible say about being mean?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 4:32 on the subject of being mean. Across 2,623 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 15:1, Colossians 3:13, 2 Corinthians 11:13-15. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.