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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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Proverbs 21:23 NIV
Those who guard their mouths and their tongues
    keep themselves from calamity.
154
Proverbs 19:1 NIV
Better the poor whose walk is blameless
    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.
139
Proverbs 10:18 NIV
Whoever conceals hatred with lying lips
    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.
111
Proverbs 17:4 NIV
A wicked person listens to deceitful lips;
    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.
102
Proverbs 10:19 NIV
Sin is not ended by multiplying words,
    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.
82

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