Bible verses about "cursing" | AKJV

¹⁷ As he loved cursing, so let it come to him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

¹⁰ And he called the multitude, and said to them, Hear, and understand: ¹¹ Not that which goes into the mouth defiles a man; but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.

¹¹ Not that which goes into the mouth defiles a man; but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.

⁷ You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain.

¹⁸ But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. ¹⁹ For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: ²⁰ These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashed hands defiles not a man.

¹⁴ Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.

²⁸ Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which spitefully use you.

⁶ Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man.

⁸ But now you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

²⁶ If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

⁸ But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. ⁹ Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. ¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not so to be.

⁴ Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

²⁹ Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers.