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Bible Verses about “using profanity

Found 22 verses (ordered by relevance) about “using profanity” in the KJV version of the Bible

Ephesians 4:29
952 votes

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.

James 1:26
439 votes

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.

Ephesians 5:4
419 votes

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

Matthew 5:37
332 votes

‹But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.›

Colossians 3:8
301 votes

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

Matthew 12:36
254 votes

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

Exodus 20:7
209 votes

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.

James 3:10
162 votes

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

Matthew 12:37
146 votes

‹For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.›

Matthew 15:11
146 votes

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

James 3:6
127 votes

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.

James 3:8
121 votes

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

Proverbs 21:23
108 votes

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

Psalms 141:3
96 votes

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

James 3:7
91 votes

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:

Psalms 19:14
83 votes

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

2 Timothy 2:16
67 votes

But shun profane [and] vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

Psalms 34:14
57 votes

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

Luke 6:45
50 votes

‹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.›

Psalms 34:13
44 votes

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

Proverbs 4:24
41 votes

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

Matthew 15:10
40 votes

¶ And he called the multitude, and said unto them, ‹Hear, and understand:›