Verbal Abuse

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.

And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. — read the full passage →

A factious man after a first and second admonition refuse;

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

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:

out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.

Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

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

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

but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:

Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

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

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

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and they defile the man.

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

Not that which entereth into the mouth defileth the man; but that which proceedeth out of the mouth, this defileth the man.

So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! — read the full passage →

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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

And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. — read the full passage →

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

but I say unto you, that every one who is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council; and whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of the hell of fire.

but whoso shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depth of the sea.

but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.

And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.

But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →

Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all men.

And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. — read the full passage →

My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Them that sin reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators; — read the full passage →

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which they received of us.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting. — read the full passage →

And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

Now faith is assurance ofthingshoped for, a conviction of things not seen. — read the full passage →

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear. — read the full passage →

Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: — read the full passage →

and in your godliness brotherly kindness; and in your brotherly kindness love.

My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him; — read the full passage →

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy.

But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. — read the full passage →

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

to speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all meekness toward all men.

It were well for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.