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What does the Bible say about using profanity?

17 verses about using profanity, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

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Bible verses about using profanity

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. 6 votes
Colossians 3:8 — But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 6 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. 4 votes
Matthew 15:10 — And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: 4 votes
Ephesians 5:4 — Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. 4 votes
James 3:10 — Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. 4 votes
James 1:26 — If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain. 3 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. 2 votes
Psalms 19:14 — Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. 2 votes
Psalms 34:13 — Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. 2 votes
Psalms 141:3 — Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. 2 votes
Proverbs 4:24 — Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. 2 votes
Proverbs 21:23 — Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles. 2 votes
Matthew 5:37 — But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. 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
2 Timothy 2:16 — But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. 2 votes
James 3:6 — And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. 2 votes

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Psalms (3), Matthew (3), James (3), Proverbs (2), Ephesians (2), Exodus (1), Luke (1), Colossians (1), 2 Timothy (1)

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