Topic

Bad Language

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Ephesians 4:29

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.

Colossians 3:8

but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:

Ephesians 5:4

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.

Exodus 20:7

Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Titus 1:11

whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.

James 1:26

If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain.

Romans 12:14

Bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not.

John 16:33

These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

John 8:44

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

1 John 4:1

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Colossians 4:6

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.

Acts 26:11

And punishing them oftentimes in all the synagogues, I strove to make them blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities.

Luke 12:10

And every one who shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Spirit it shall not be forgiven.

James 3:9–12

Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God: — read the full passage →

Proverbs 6:5

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Proverbs 5:6

So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, andshe knoweth it not.

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