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Want to know what the Bible says about Name Calling? Here are 36 Bible verses about Name Calling from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Matthew 5:22 NIV
But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.
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Psalm 110:1 NIV
The Lord says to my lord:
“Sit at my right hand
    until I make your enemies
    a footstool for your feet.”
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Proverbs 29:9-11 NIV
9 If a wise person goes to court with a fool,
    the fool rages and scoffs, and there is no peace.
10 The bloodthirsty hate a person of integrity
    and seek to kill the upright.
11 Fools give full vent to their rage,
    but the wise bring calm in the end.
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Titus 1:12 NIV
One of Crete’s own prophets has said it: “Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.”
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Matthew 23:27 NIV
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.
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Matthew 3:7-8 NIV
7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? 8 Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
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Proverbs 20:22 NIV
Do not say, “I’ll pay you back for this wrong!”
    Wait for the Lord, and he will avenge you.
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Ephesians 6:16 NIV
In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
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Proverbs 19:11 NIV
A person’s wisdom yields patience;
    it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.
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Ephesians 5:6 NIV
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient.
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Matthew 26:50 NIV
Jesus replied, “Do what you came for, friend.”
Then the men stepped forward, seized Jesus and arrested him.
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John 19:19 NIV
Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews.
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Luke 9:41 NIV
“You unbelieving and perverse generation,” Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”
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Psalm 37:12-13 NIV
12 The wicked plot against the righteous
    and gnash their teeth at them;
13 but the Lord laughs at the wicked,
    for he knows their day is coming.
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Exodus 34:6 NIV
And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness,
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1 Peter 2:21-24 NIV
21 To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
22 “He committed no sin,
    and no deceit was found in his mouth.”
23 When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. 24 “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”
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John 6:70 NIV
Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”
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Psalm 83:5 NIV
With one mind they plot together;
    they form an alliance against you—
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2 Samuel 1:19-20 NIV
19 “A gazelle lies slain on your heights, Israel.
    How the mighty have fallen!
20 “Tell it not in Gath,
    proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon,
lest the daughters of the Philistines be glad,
    lest the daughters of the uncircumcised rejoice.
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Acts 9:14 NIV
And he has come here with authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on your name.”
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