92 Bible Verses about Using Bad Language
Want to know what the Bible says about Using Bad Language? Here are 92 Bible verses about Using Bad Language from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.
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Ephesians 4:29 NIV
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
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Ephesians 5:4 NIV
Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.
768
Colossians 3:8-10 NIV
8 But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
482
Exodus 20:7 NIV
“You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
358
Proverbs 4:24 NIV
Keep your mouth free of perversity;
keep corrupt talk far from your lips.
keep corrupt talk far from your lips.
298
Psalm 34:12-14 NIV
12 Whoever of you loves life
and desires to see many good days,
13 keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from telling lies.
14 Turn from evil and do good;
seek peace and pursue it.
and desires to see many good days,
13 keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from telling lies.
14 Turn from evil and do good;
seek peace and pursue it.
256
Matthew 15:11 NIV
What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”
243
Matthew 12:36 NIV
But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.
225
Colossians 4:6 NIV
Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
168
Proverbs 10:11 NIV
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life,
but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
160
Proverbs 21:23 NIV
Those who guard their mouths and their tongues
keep themselves from calamity.
keep themselves from calamity.
154
Proverbs 19:1 NIV
Better the poor whose walk is blameless
than a fool whose lips are perverse.
than a fool whose lips are perverse.
152
Proverbs 26:20 NIV
Without wood a fire goes out;
without a gossip a quarrel dies down.
without a gossip a quarrel dies down.
139
Proverbs 10:18 NIV
Whoever conceals hatred with lying lips
and spreads slander is a fool.
and spreads slander is a fool.
124
Luke 6:45 NIV
A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
116
Proverbs 19:11 NIV
A person’s wisdom yields patience;
it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.
it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.
111
Proverbs 17:4 NIV
A wicked person listens to deceitful lips;
a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.
a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.
103
Proverbs 19:20 NIV
Listen to advice and accept discipline,
and at the end you will be counted among the wise.
and at the end you will be counted among the wise.
102
Proverbs 10:19 NIV
Sin is not ended by multiplying words,
but the prudent hold their tongues.
but the prudent hold their tongues.
97
Ecclesiastes 7:9 NIV
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit,
for anger resides in the lap of fools.
for anger resides in the lap of fools.
82
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