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What does the Bible say about using bad language?

16 verses about using bad language, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

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Bible verses about using bad language

Ephesians 4:29 — Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 14 votes
Ephesians 5:4 — Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. 10 votes
Colossians 3:8 — But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 6 votes
Exodus 20:7 — Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 5 votes
Proverbs 4:24 — Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. 4 votes
Psalms 34:12 — What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? 3 votes
Matthew 12:36 — But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 3 votes
Matthew 15:11 — Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. 3 votes
James 3:1 — My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. 3 votes
Proverbs 10:11 — The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 2 votes
Proverbs 10:18 — He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool. 2 votes
Proverbs 19:1 — Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. 2 votes
Proverbs 21:23 — Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles. 2 votes
Proverbs 26:20 — Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. 2 votes
Luke 6:45 — A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. 2 votes
Colossians 4:6 — Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. 2 votes

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Proverbs (6), Matthew (2), Ephesians (2), Colossians (2), Exodus (1), Psalms (1), Luke (1), James (1)

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