Bible Verses About Foul Language
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for foul language, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 8,129 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 Foul Language
Ephesians 5:4662 votes
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
Ephesians 4:29587 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.
Colossians 3:8338 votes
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Colossians 3:8-10328 votes
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Colossians 4:6267 votes
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Exodus 20:7249 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.
Matthew 12:37230 votes
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Matthew 12:36204 votes
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
James 3:10196 votes
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
Matthew 15:10-11193 votes
And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:
2 Timothy 2:16182 votes
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
Philippians 4:8148 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.
Romans 12:2115 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.
James 1:26110 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.
Titus 2:12103 votes
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
1 Peter 3:1099 votes
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
Deuteronomy 5:1197 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.
Proverbs 21:2394 votes
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Matthew 15:1192 votes
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Matthew 5:2289 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
Proverbs 15:488 votes
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Luke 6:4586 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.
Proverbs 18:2180 votes
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
James 1:1976 votes
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Matthew 12:36-3775 votes
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
What does the Bible say about foul language?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 5:4 on the subject of foul language. Across 8,129 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 4:29, Colossians 3:8, Colossians 3:8-10. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.