Bible Verses about “using bad language”

“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.”

“Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.”

“¶ But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.”

“‹But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.›”

“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.”

“Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”

“Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;”

“And have put on the new [man], which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:”

“For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.”

“Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.”

“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.”

“¶ My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.”

“‹Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.›”

“But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.”

“And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.”

“But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.”

“This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish.”

“Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.”

“¶ Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.”

“For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same [is] a perfect man, [and] able also to bridle the whole body.”

“Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!”

“And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.”

“For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:”

“Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet [water] and bitter?”

“¶ Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.”

“Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.”

“Behold also the ships, which though [they be] so great, and [are] driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.”

“Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.”

“Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.”

“Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.”

“Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.”

“¶ Better [is] the poor that walketh in his integrity, than [he that is] perverse in his lips, and is a fool.”

“¶ Where no wood is, [there] the fire goeth out: so where [there is] no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.”

“¶ He that hideth hatred [with] lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, [is] a fool.”

“What man [is he that] desireth life, [and] loveth [many] days, that he may see good?”

“¶ The mouth of a righteous [man is] a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.”