18 Bible Verses About Toxic People

The Bible describes harmful people by what they do, and it tells believers both to keep their distance and not to repay them in kind. Proverbs warns about the whisperer who “separates close friends” (Proverbs 16:28), and Paul about the divisive person (Titus 3:10-11). Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount and Paul in Romans 12 tell believers to love their enemies (Matthew 5:44), to live peaceably with all “so far as it depends on you” (Romans 12:18), and to…