Bible Verses About Coarse Joking
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for coarse joking, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,614 votes, led by Ephesians 5:4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Coarse Joking
Ephesians 5:4302 votes
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
Ephesians 4:29163 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.
Ephesians 5:1-33117 votes
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
Colossians 3:894 votes
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
James 1:2678 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.
Matthew 12:3670 votes
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Proverbs 26:1968 votes
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
Proverbs 21:2360 votes
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Philippians 4:853 votes
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Ephesians 4:1-3245 votes
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
1 Corinthians 15:3338 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Ephesians 5:337 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Colossians 3:930 votes
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Romans 12:227 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Ephesians 5:527 votes
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Colossians 3:523 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
James 3:623 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.
Ephesians 4:2520 votes
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
2 Corinthians 6:1418 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Ephesians 5:8-1217 votes
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Proverbs 18:2116 votes
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Luke 1:3716 votes
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Romans 12:1-216 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Colossians 3:1716 votes
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Proverbs 17:2215 votes
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
What does the Bible say about coarse joking?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 5:4 on the subject of coarse joking. Across 1,614 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 4:29, Ephesians 5:1-33, Colossians 3:8. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.