Bitter Words

• Slander

Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

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

• Corrupt
• Spring

Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: