Topic
Bad Language
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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.
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
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.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
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.
Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode 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 of it.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven.
Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. — read the full passage →
Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
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