Bible Verses About Hateful Words
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for hateful words, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 724 votes, led by Ephesians 4:29. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Hateful Words
Ephesians 4:29170 votes
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.
Ephesians 4:31-3272 votes
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Proverbs 12:1858 votes
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Colossians 4:654 votes
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Psalms 109:1-3148 votes
Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
Matthew 18:932 votes
And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
1 John 4:2025 votes
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
Ephesians 2:322 votes
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Colossians 1:1317 votes
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Matthew 18:816 votes
Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
Proverbs 22:615 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Psalms 119:7414 votes
They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.
Proverbs 10:1214 votes
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Proverbs 15:114 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Matthew 18:514 votes
And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
Psalms 109:613 votes
Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
Psalms 91:1-1612 votes
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Romans 12:911 votes
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Philippians 1:2111 votes
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Colossians 4:1-1811 votes
Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Titus 3:311 votes
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Psalms 97:1010 votes
Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
Matthew 18:710 votes
Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
John 14:610 votes
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Ephesians 4:3110 votes
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
What does the Bible say about hateful words?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 4:29 on the subject of hateful words. Across 724 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 4:31-32, Proverbs 12:18, Colossians 4:6. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.