Cursing

Cursing

It is imperative that we seek to honor Him with our words. The world's coarseness of speech is creeping in among God's people. It ought not be. God does clearly have a set standard of what words would please Him.

Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Ephesians 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

There is a correlation between wholesome speech and growth in the Lord. May the Lord help us in this area to honor Him.


Exodus 20:7

Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Leviticus 19:12
And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.

Psalms 10:4,7The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity.

Psalms 59:12
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken [is like] apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Proverbs 29:24
Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth [it] not.

Proverbs 12:6The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood,
but the speech of the upright rescues them.

Psalms 19:14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

Proverbs 16:24Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Ecclesiastes 10:12The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.