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Bible Verses About Swearing and Cursing
Find Bible verses about swearing and cursing — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about swearing and cursing?
The Bible addresses swearing and cursing with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
James 3:10
“Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.”
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Hosea 10:4
“They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.”
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Romans 3:14
“"whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."”
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Psalms 10:7
“His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.”
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Numbers 5:21
“then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, "Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;”
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Job 3:8
“Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.”
Psalms 109:18
“He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.”
2 Samuel 16:7
“Shimei said when he cursed, "Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow!”
Psalms 109:17
“Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight in blessing, and it was far from him.”
Leviticus 6:3
“or has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of all these things that a man does, sinning therein;”
Psalms 109:28
“They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice.”
Hosea 4:2
“There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.”
Deuteronomy 28:20
“Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you hav...”
Numbers 22:11
“'Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covers the surface of the earth: now, come curse me them; perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.'"”
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