Bad Language

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

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.

“You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

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

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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

Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God. — read the full passage →

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.