Using Profanity

Everyday topics

Verses

12 references
  1. But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
  2. Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.
  3. But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.
  4. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
  5. Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, this should not be!
  6. Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, “Listen and understand.
  7. A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.”
  8. If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
  9. He who guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from distress.
  10. But avoid irreverent, empty chatter, which will only lead to more ungodliness,
  11. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
  12. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.