Bible Verses About Verbal Abuse
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for verbal abuse, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 10,891 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 Verbal Abuse
Ephesians 4:29462 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.
Matthew 12:36-37428 votes
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Titus 3:10347 votes
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
Psalms 34:18343 votes
The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Colossians 3:19329 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Proverbs 18:21298 votes
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Proverbs 22:24292 votes
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Ephesians 4:31269 votes
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Proverbs 12:18245 votes
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
James 3:10214 votes
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
James 1:26210 votes
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.
Proverbs 15:1205 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13200 votes
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians 15:33197 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
James 1:19187 votes
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Proverbs 29:22183 votes
An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
Ephesians 6:4174 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:15159 votes
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.
Colossians 3:8146 votes
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Galatians 6:1139 votes
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.
1 Peter 5:8126 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Proverbs 11:9118 votes
An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
Proverbs 21:23116 votes
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Ephesians 5:25109 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 4:32106 votes
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
What does the Bible say about verbal abuse?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 4:29 on the subject of verbal abuse. Across 10,891 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Matthew 12:36-37, Titus 3:10, Psalms 34:18. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.