Bible Verses about “using profanity”
The Bible contains 22 verses about using profanity across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“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.”
“Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.”
“‹But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.›”
“¶ 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.”
“Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.”
“‹For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.›”
“‹Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.›”
“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.”
“¶ Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.”
“Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.”
“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:”
“Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.”
“But shun profane [and] vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.”
“Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.”
“‹A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.›”
“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.”
“¶ And he called the multitude, and said unto them, ‹Hear, and understand:›”