user-1: Reference needed.  I remember reading a sutta where Buddha mentioned something like a stream enterer would no longer use words to attack others like weapons.  I would like to read that sutta in its entirety again.  Thanks. 

user8157: The sutta about "verbal daggers"? I can't remember it. 
Oh! I found it:

When the Dhamma has been taught by me in such a way through different methods of exposition, it may be expected of those who will not
  concede, allow and approve of what is well stated and well spoken by
  others that they will become contentious and quarrelsome and engage in
  disputes, and that they will dwell stabbing each other with verbal
  daggers. But when the Dhamma has been taught by me in such a way
  through different methods of exposition, it may be expected of those
  who will concede, allow and approve of what is well stated and well
  spoken by others that they will live in concord, with mutual
  appreciation, without disputing, blending like milk and water,
  viewing each other with kindly eyes.
SN 36.19


user-1: I found it.  From MN48 Discourse at Kosambī

And what, monks, is that view which is ariyan, leading onwards, and which leads him who acts according to it to the complete destruction of anguish? Herein, monks, a monk who is forest-gone or gone to the root of a tree or gone to an empty place, reflects like this; ‘Now, have I a subjective obsession, not got rid of, owing to which I, if my mind were obsessed by it, could not know, could not see (things) as they really are? 
  (1) If, monks, a monk is obsessed by addiction to sense-pleasures, to this extent is his mind obsessed. (2) If, monks, a monk is obsessed by malevolence, to this extent is his mind obsessed. (3) If, monks, a monk is obsessed by sloth and torpor, to this extent is his mind obsessed. (4) If, monks, a monk is obsessed by restlessness and worry, to this extent is his mind obsessed. (5) If, monks, a monk is obsessed by doubt, to this extent is his mind obsessed, to this extent is his mind obsessed. (6) If, monks, a monk centres his thought on this world, to this extent is his mind obsessed. (7) If, monks, a monk centres his thought on the world beyond, to this extent is his mind obsessed. (8) If, monks, a monk, disputatious, quarrelsome, contentious, lives wounding with the weapons of his tongue, to this extent is his mind obsessed. He comprehends thus: ‘I have no subjective obsession, not got rid of, owing to which I, if my mind were obsessed by it, could not know, could not see (things) as they really are; my thought is well directed towards awakening as to the truths.’ This is the first knowledge won by him, ariyan, transcendental, not in common with average men.

ps. thanks for the answers

user254: There's a phrase like that Tittha Sutta: Sectarians (Ud 6.4):

And they kept on arguing, quarreling, & disputing, wounding one another with weapons of the mouth, saying,

"The Dhamma is like this, it's not like that. The Dhamma's not like that, it's like this."


This sutta contains the simile of the elephant.
The phrase is also in the next two suttas (Ud 6.5 and 6.6).

-1: <p>Reference needed.  I remember reading a sutta where Buddha mentioned something like a stream enterer would no longer use words to attack others like weapons.  I would like to read that sutta in its entirety again.  Thanks. </p>
 8157: <p>The sutta about "verbal daggers"? I can't remember it. </p>

<p>Oh! I found it:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><em>When the Dhamma has been taught by me in such a way through different methods of exposition, it may be expected of those who will not
  concede, allow and approve of what is well stated and well spoken by
  others that they will become contentious and quarrelsome and engage in
  disputes, and that they will dwell <strong>stabbing each other with verbal
  daggers</strong>. But when the Dhamma has been taught by me in such a way
  through different methods of exposition, it may be expected of those
  who will concede, allow and approve of what is well stated and well
  spoken by others that they will live in concord, with mutual
  appreciation, without disputing, <strong>blending like milk and water</strong>,
  viewing each other with kindly eyes.</em></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://suttacentral.net/en/sn36.19" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SN 36.19</a></p>
</blockquote>
 -1: <p>I found it.  From <a href="https://suttacentral.net/en/mn48" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MN48</a> Discourse at Kosambī</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>And what, monks, is that view which is ariyan, leading onwards, and which leads him who acts according to it to the complete destruction of anguish? Herein, monks, a monk who is forest-gone or gone to the root of a tree or gone to an empty place, reflects like this; ‘Now, have I a subjective obsession, not got rid of, owing to which I, if my mind were obsessed by it, could not know, could not see (things) as they really are? 
  <strong>(1)</strong> If, monks, a monk is obsessed by addiction to sense-pleasures, to this extent is his mind obsessed. <strong>(2)</strong> If, monks, a monk is obsessed by malevolence, to this extent is his mind obsessed. <strong>(3)</strong> If, monks, a monk is obsessed by sloth and torpor, to this extent is his mind obsessed. <strong>(4)</strong> If, monks, a monk is obsessed by restlessness and worry, to this extent is his mind obsessed. <strong>(5)</strong> If, monks, a monk is obsessed by doubt, to this extent is his mind obsessed, to this extent is his mind obsessed. <strong>(6)</strong> If, monks, a monk centres his thought on this world, to this extent is his mind obsessed. <strong>(7)</strong> If, monks, a monk centres his thought on the world beyond, to this extent is his mind obsessed. <strong>(8)</strong> If, monks, a monk, disputatious, quarrelsome, contentious, lives wounding with the weapons of his tongue, to this extent is his mind obsessed. He comprehends thus: ‘I have no subjective obsession, not got rid of, owing to which I, if my mind were obsessed by it, could not know, could not see (things) as they really are; my thought is well directed towards awakening as to the truths.’ <strong>This is the first knowledge won by him, ariyan, transcendental, not in common with average men.</strong></p>
</blockquote>

<p>ps. thanks for the answers</p>
 254: <p>There's a phrase like that <a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/ud/ud.6.04.than.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Tittha Sutta: Sectarians (Ud 6.4)</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>And they kept on arguing, quarreling, &amp; disputing, wounding one another with weapons of the mouth, saying,</p>
<blockquote>
<p>&quot;The Dhamma is like this, it's not like that. The Dhamma's not like that, it's like this.&quot;</p>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<p>This sutta contains the simile of the elephant.</p>
<p>The phrase is also in the next two suttas (Ud 6.5 and 6.6).</p>
