Bible Verses About Using Bad Language
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for using bad language, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 8,709 votes, led by Ephesians 4:29. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Using Bad Language
Ephesians 4:291,216 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 5:4870 votes
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
Colossians 3:8-10534 votes
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Exodus 20:7404 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 4:24342 votes
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
Matthew 15:11302 votes
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Psalms 34:12-14289 votes
What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
Matthew 12:36270 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 3:1-18234 votes
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Colossians 4:6188 votes
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Proverbs 10:11184 votes
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 21:23176 votes
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Proverbs 19:1174 votes
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
Proverbs 26:20147 votes
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Proverbs 10:18134 votes
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
Luke 6:45131 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 19:11128 votes
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Proverbs 19:20115 votes
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Proverbs 17:4110 votes
A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
Proverbs 10:19109 votes
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Colossians 3:898 votes
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Ecclesiastes 7:988 votes
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Proverbs 25:1183 votes
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Proverbs 10:3279 votes
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
Proverbs 10:1478 votes
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
What does the Bible say about using bad language?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 4:29 on the subject of using bad language. Across 8,709 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 5:4, Colossians 3:8-10, Exodus 20:7. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.