9 Bible Verses about Using Bad Language Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 392 helpful votes Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. Ephesians 5:4 ESV / 266 helpful votes Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. Colossians 3:8-10 ESV / 201 helpful votes But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Matthew 15:11 ESV / 194 helpful votes It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.” Exodus 20:7 ESV / 109 helpful votes “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. Psalm 34:12-14 ESV / 91 helpful votes What man is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. Proverbs 4:24 ESV / 73 helpful votes Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you. James 3:1-18 ESV / 66 helpful votes Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! ... Psalm 19:14 ESV / 59 helpful votes Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. Proverbs 26:20 ESV / 57 helpful votes For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases. Proverbs 10:18 ESV / 50 helpful votes The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool. Proverbs 19:1 ESV / 45 helpful votes Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool. Proverbs 10:11 ESV / 41 helpful votes The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence. Colossians 4:6 ESV / 35 helpful votes Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. Proverbs 19:11 ESV / 28 helpful votes Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense. Ecclesiastes 7:9 ESV / 27 helpful votes Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools. Proverbs 10:19 ESV / 27 helpful votes When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent. Proverbs 10:14 ESV / 27 helpful votes The wise lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near. Proverbs 10:20 ESV / 24 helpful votes The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; the heart of the wicked is of little worth. Luke 6:45 ESV / 23 helpful votes The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. Proverbs 19:20 ESV / 23 helpful votes Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future. Proverbs 17:4 ESV / 22 helpful votes An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue. Proverbs 25:11 ESV / 21 helpful votes A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver. Matthew 12:36 ESV / 18 helpful votes I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, Ecclesiastes 5:2 ESV / 18 helpful votes Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. Proverbs 17:27 ESV / 18 helpful votes Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding. Proverbs 10:21 ESV / 18 helpful votes The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense. Psalm 145:16-21 ESV / 17 helpful votes You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing. The Lord is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works. The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them. The Lord preserves all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy. ... James 3:6 ESV / 16 helpful votes And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. Proverbs 29:22 ESV / 16 helpful votes A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression. Titus 3:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes To speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people. Proverbs 10:32 ESV / 15 helpful votes The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse. James 4:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. Ecclesiastes 5:6 ESV / 13 helpful votes Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands? Proverbs 16:23 ESV / 13 helpful votes The heart of the wise makes his speech judicious and adds persuasiveness to his lips. Psalm 10:4-11 ESV / 13 helpful votes In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.” His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them. He says in his heart, “I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.” His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity. He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless; ... Romans 3:10-18 ESV / 12 helpful votes As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.” “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.” ... 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 9 helpful votes If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ... Proverbs 21:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.
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